Calendar of Irish saints, the martyrology of Tallagh, with notices of the patron saints of Ireland, and select poems and hymns

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CALENDAR OF IRISH SAINTS,

THE

ISwrfpIdjB of Magjj ;

WITH NOTICES OF THE

PATRON SAINTS OF IRELAND.

AND

Stint Dffftns aitl> Iptns.

BY THE

REV. MATTHEW KELLY, D.D.

PROFESSOR OF ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY, ST. PATRICK'S COLLEGE,

MAYNOOIH.

DUBLIN:
J. MULL ANY, 1, PARLIAMENT STREET,

AND 47, FLEET STREET.

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PREFACE.

The following Catalogue of Irish Saints is compiled from
the Martyrology of Tallaght, of which the Editor obtained a
copy, in the year 1847, from the Burgundian Library, Brus-
sells, through the kindness of the Rev. Father Tinbroeck,
S. J. As the original is in the Irish character, with some
peculiar Irish contractions and many strange Irish names,
inaccuracies in the first transcript were unavoidable; but
they have been carefully corrected by Eugene Curry, Esq.,
Catholic University, according to a copy which he made
from the original for Dr. Todd, Trinity College, Dublin, on
whose application, in 1850 # the Belgian government allowed
it and other valuable Irish manuscripts to be sent to Ireland
to be transcribed. The supplementary Catalogue, from the
Martyrology of Donegal, has been supplied altogether by
Mr. Curry from a manuscript in possession of Dr. Todd,
who kindly afforded every facility for completing and cor-
recting the first published general catalogue of Irish Saints.

The Martyrology of Tallaght was so styled by Colgan from
the monastery in which it was compiled, within five miles
of Dublin. It had been previously known as the Martyr-
ology of St. Maelruain and St. JEngus. The former, who was
bishop and abbot at Tallaght, died in the year 788. The
precise year of the death of St. JEngus is uncertain. He had
embraced the religious state in the monastery of Clonenagh,
near Mountrath, in the Queen's county, and acquired there
so great a reputation for holiness and learning that anxious
to escape the dangers of vain -glory anrf attracted partly by
the fame of St. Maelruain, he entered, as a lay brother,

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the monastery of Tallaght, and for several years succeeded
in concealing his name. Being at length made known, he
assisted St. Maelruain in the composition of many hagiolo-
gical works, and on the death of his friend returned, it is
believed, to the monastery of Clonenagh, which he governed
with other monasteries as bishop and abbot until his death.

The martyrology of Tallaght which they compiled, was the
most comprehensive of all the Irish martyrologies. It con-
tained a greater number of saints than were found, even in the
principal work used in Colgan's time, by the Bollandists. As
in all similar compilations the names are arranged according
to the order of the year, each saint upon his own festival ; the
Irish saints being mentioned separately at the end of each
day. Some additions were made to it after the death of its
authors; for besides their own festivals, St Maelruan July 7,
and St. iEngus March 11, it records those of several others
down to the close of the ninth century ; St. Corpre, Abbot of
Clonmacnoise, who died in 899, being, according to Colgan,
the latest.

Colgan intended to publish this martyrology, but deferred
the work in the hope of finding a complete copy, both of these
in his possession, the only ones known to exist, wanting the
whole month of November, the first sixteen days of December,
and a few days in the other months. There is little chance
of recovering these portions, but the loss is to a great degree
supplied by the Martyrology of Donegal, which was compiled
by the O'Clerys from other sources in the commencement
of the seventeenth century, and which in all the other months
generally agrees with the martyrology of Tallaght.

To preserve the historical value of this catalogue, the names
taken from the Martyrology of Donegal, are not mixed with
those of the more ancient martyrology. With the same view
the names are printed as they are in the original, sometimes

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in the Irish, sometimes in the Latin form : and it may be
not unnecessary to state, that in accordance with the usual
style of martyrologies, the name of the saint is frequently in
the genitive case, the word festival or feast being, of course,
understood. Any departure from the original, in these
points, might lead to serious mistakes in the names of the
saints and of their churches, and detract considerably from
the value of the catalogue as an historical record. The
adoption of the alphabetical order, instead of the order of the
calendar, we may remark, is not so great a departure from
the original as might be supposed by those who are not aware
that, like similar records of other churches, our martyrology
contains very few particulars except the name of the saint,
and the day of his festival, and occasionally the site of his
church all of which are preserved in this publication, and in
an order much more convenient for reference and inquiry.

Meagre though it may appear it will often enable the in-
quirer to identify without any difficulty, localities and memo-
rials connected with the hagiology of Ireland ; and it may,
moreover, excite a wish for the publication of the other
martyrologies, compiled by St. JEngus, which are more cir-
cumstantial in details ; the best and not unfrequently the sole
authorities for important facts in history, and if judiciously
published, most respectable relics of the ancient liturgical
order in Ireland. The failure of several attempts during the
last ten years to publish these works, was, indeed, one of the
motives that led to the compilation of this catalogue, as a
sort of commencement of a work which cannot be long
deferred.

To make this catalogue useful it may be necessary to give
most readers a few directions how to use it; how to know the
different forms of the same name, and the changes which it may
undergo either by prefixes or affixes, or by incorporation

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with another word. Few, for instance, would be able to
recognise in the ever famous word Derrynane (t)ojne f : T | W>)i
a compound of the Irish word ttojTie £. e, an u oak grove,"
and Vw&w the name of a saint ; the first letter of the latter
becoming, by a law of the Irish Language, silent in similar
compounds. In like manner, who would imagine that the
Christian name Moses, not uncommon in a few eastern
counties, is none other than Aidan or Aedh, patron of Ferns,
which by an ordinary custom of the Irish became Moedhog,
or Mogue, a sound gradually rejected, it is supposed, for its
vulgarity, Moses being substituted in its place. A few words
on these changes of Irish names, and on the more ordinary
compounds, together with a glossary for the few Irish words
retained, and a list of those whose pronunciations differ
notably from the English, will be sufficient to enable ordi-
nary readers to make some use of this catalogue.

I. The possessive pronouns njo and bo, "mine" and "thine"
are frequently prefixed to the names of Irish saints, as
Chonna 3/ochonna, .Dochonna: Beog, iWobeog, 2)abeog, &c,
&c, oo was not common except in very ancient forms.

II. If the name began with a vowel, the vowel of the pro-
noun was dropped, as Ita or Ida became Mids^ Aedhan,
.Miedhan, Ernoc or Ernan, ilfernoc, Fltin ilMtin.

III. The terminations, an, en, in, oc, og, are often added
to the name of saints, Aedh, Aedhan, Lua, Luaw, Lochea,
Lochia, Laisre, Lairrean, Baire, Barein, Midu, Midoc,
Ciaran, Ciaroc, Brighde, Brideog.

IV. Sometimes the prefix and termination are both incor-
porated with the name — thus Midu, patron of Fiddown, in the
County of Kilkenny, becomes Momedoc ; Ciaran sometimes
Mociarog; Colman, Mocholmoc; Coeman, Mochoemog;
Aedh, Maedhog, i. e. Mogue; Critan, Mocritog; Senan,
Mosenog; Goban, Mogobog.

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V. The letter d and t are often interchanged as Cadan
Catan ; 1 for n, as Colla for Conla, and the vowels are also
interchanged according to laws which may be seen in Irish
grammars: thus Faolan, Foelan are the same name, tind
Fainche, Fuinche, Funche the same also. See Colgan Acta
Sanctorum, pp. GO, n. 1 ; 378, n. 14 ; 50, n. 3 ; also 188, n.
4 ; 304, n. 2 ; 251, n. 6 ; 314, n. 25 ; 159, n. 1 ; 155, n. 3.

The words with which the names of saints are most
frequently compounded are, of course, those that designate
sacred objects, or localities, thus —

Kil (Cill), a church — as Kilmurry, Kilbride, Kilkenny-,
the church of St. Mary, St. Bridget, St. Canice.

Teach, or Tigh, and with an S prefixed in some places—
Stigh, a house — as Timolin, Timoleague, Stackallen, Stillor-
gan — i.e. St. Moling, St. Molagga, St. Callan, St. Lorcan, or
Laurence's house.

Dysart or Desert a retreat, as Desertinos, Desert Martin,
i.e. St. jEngus's, St Martin's. Domnach from the Latin
Dominicus, a church, pronounced Donagh or Donny, as
Donaghpatrick, Donnycumper. Domnach mor Petair. Doire
or Deny, an oak grove, as Doire Mclla ; Derrynavlan, i.e.
Doire na Flann. Lajm a church, as Lanelo, now Lynally.
Cross, as Crosbrighde. Tober a well, as Toberkiaran ;
Tobermurry. Tempul, a church ; Serine areliquary; Termon
a sanctuary ; Cluuin, a secluded meadow or low ground, are
often compounded with the names of saints ; and also other
topographical terms as in Slieve Donard, Cruach Patrick,
Hathkiaran, imsmurry, ylrrfpatrick, &c. &c.

When these or other words are prefixed, in composition,
to the name of the saint, the pronunciation of the name is
sometimes so changed, that it would deceive one not ac-
quainted with the Irish language. The initial consonant of
the name, if of the aspirable class, is aspirated; b and m

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become vorw; d and g, y broad and guttural ; t and s, b ;
c, ch ; and p, ph : as Dun/>//adruig, &c. &c.

The names and feasts in the Martyrology are almost ex-
clusively Irish, the only exceptions being a few Saxon saints,
and one feast at the 18th of December styled "Salutatio
Marias ab Elizabeth," p. 27. Of the latter no satisfactory
account is known to the editor, nor does it appear how it
found its place in an exclusively Irish catalogue. Possibly
it may have been in the larger book, or general martyrology,
from which it appears our martyrology was compiled, and
by accident or the private devotion of the translator, it may
have been introduced here.

The same name, it will be observed, frequently occurs on
several days ; being different feasts of the same saint in the
same or different places. There are two festivals of St.
Patrick besides the 17th of March, viz., his Ordination,
''Ordinatio Patricii;" on April 6, p. 26, and the "Coming
of his Baptism to Ireland," Baptisma Patricii venit ad
Hiberniam, April 5, p. 8.

As might be expected, there are a few special feasts or
remarkable days, recorded for the monastery of Tallaght
itself, days on which some precious treasure of relics was first
acquired by its church. Thus, on August 10, " St. Maelruain
came to Tallaght with the relics of saints and virgins," p. 21.
On March 27, arrived there the relics of Sellanus, p. 28 ; on
September 5, the relics of Mac leir, p. 27 : on October 5,
the relics collected by Mac an Eigeas, p. 26, and on Septem-
ber 6, the relics of Sciath, daughter of Mechi.

Of the history of Tallaght Monastery, the earliest authentic
notices date from the time of St. Maelruain. But a singular
event soon gave it a prominent place in Irish annals. Its
sanctnarv or termon lands having been plundered by the
Hy Niall, in 806, the national games of Tail tin were pre-

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vented M by the monks of Tallaght neither horse nor
chariot being allowed to run until the king of Ireland had
made full reparation for the injuries inflicted on the monas-
tery, and for the violation of those immunities then secured
to church property in Ireland, as well as in other countries.
In the fourteenth century, Tallaght became the property of
the Archbishops of Dublin, their country residence being
near the site of the old monastery. Of its subsequent his-
tory we will only say that, within the last few years, the old
arch i episcopal mansion has passed into the hands of the Do-
minicans, to inspire some of them perhaps to rival, in the
ancient ecclesiastical history of Ireland, the accurate and
extensive erudition of the great Dominican, De Burgo, on
more recent times.

If any apology is required for giving those few pages so re-
spectable a title, the compiler can declare with sincerity,
tfiat there was, at first, no intention of adopting that nor

The original design was, to publish a catalogue of Irish saints
from some ancient and authentic source, partly as a com-
panion to an ecclesiastical map, and also to supply a want
v/hich had been long lelt in topography and civil history as
well as in the history of the Churcn. With that view the
alphabetical list, trom page 1 to page 36, was arranged and
prepared with the preface and topographical index for publi-
( ation. But the publisher having expressed some appre-
hension about the sale ot a naked catalogue, and suggested
that it might be made less uninteresting by the insertion
of other matter, it was resolved to introduce some pieces
bearing on the original plan, and which, if not themselves
worthy of the title that has been adopted, would at least give
valuable assistance in the composition of a work becoming
the glory of Irish saints.

I. The first matter adopted for publication was a compi-
lation from Colgan's " Acta Sanctorum," on the saints ot
the three first months of the year, made many years ago at
the request of the late W. E. Hudson, for the Celtic society.

indeed any title which could i

sponsibility.

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This compilation purports to select a few circumstances
relating to the saints of each day, such as they are recorded
on Colgan's authority.

II. To these it was resolved to add short notices of the
patron saints of the diocesses in Ireland, not included in
Colgan's work.

III. By the kindness of E. Curry, Esq., the earliest
authentic references to most of the patron saints of diocesses
were obtained in the original Irish from the venerable mar-
tyrology of iEnghus, the Culdee.

IV. A poem by Cuimin of Connor, on the characteristic
virtues of the principal Irish saints who flourished before the
middle of the seventh century. The translation, which is by
Mr. Curry, generally agrees with the Latin versions by
Colgan and rhilip O'Suliivan, as far as can be known from
the extracts which have come down to us.

V. A short life of St. Canice, patron of Kilkenny, to which
are appended a Proper Mass of that saint, approved by
Clement XII. ; and an account of the solemn ceremony with
which the city of Kilkenny was placed under the patronage
of the Blessed Virgin, in the first years of the Catholic Con-
federation.

VI. Hymns collected from different sources in honour of
Irish saints, especially of those who were most known and
revered in several parts of the continent Among them will
be found a few hymns from the most ancient liturgical
monument of the Irish Church, the Antiphonary of Bangor.

VII. The Martyrology, or Calendar of Tallaght as it
stands in the original, so often cited by Colgan and by all
authorities on the lives of Irish saints.

In conclusion, for any miracles recorded in the following
pages, and not approved by the Church, no other belief is
claimed than what is ordinarily given to history, resting on
> human authority ; and the appellation of Saint or Blessed,
given to any persons not canonized or beatified by the
Church, is understood according to the usage and opinion
of the authorities which have recorded their names or actions.

Maynootr College
Sept. 20, 1857

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MARTYROLOGY OF TALLAGE.

JANUARY.

Sal.

1. Brocan mac Ennae.
Finntan mac Tuicthech
Seethe, Vir. o Fcrt Sceithe
Aedan h-Fiachna.
Eochaid.

Tobrea.

Ossene Cluana moir.

Comnataan Vir.

Finntan mac Eochach o

Bealach.
Finnche Lochari.
Colman Muilinn.
Crone Galraa.
Ernan mac Eoghain.
Aedh Lochagerg,a/w« Daib-

heog.

Airmedach, Abb. Craibhi
Lasri.

Mac Decill h-Eacbach Uis-
neacb.

iv. Non.

2. Scuithin.
Mancbeni Sapiens.
Iugena Baithi Maigb f^iphi.
iiocbait Ab Maigbi Bile.

iil. Non.

3. Finnlag Duinbleisci, i.
Blew ainm Mncida Righ.
h-Cuanach, ise roboi.
Uinionadsen artus unde.
nominatur locus.
Cillini mac b. Colla.

ii. Non.

4. Aedini Epis.
Maolan Eanaigb.
Macbomma Droma Ailchi.
Fidnatan, Vir.

Non.

5. Ciaran mac Aedha ocus

Colman mac Eachtacb.
Aircndan mac Ogi, mac

Eachdacb.
Ciar ingen Dnibbrea.
Joseph Epis. Tamlachtan.

riii. Idus.

6. Diarmaid mac Eachdacb, o

Airiud sin la Cerclac ocus
Ingen Natfraich in Enach
airdd.

Tuililatha.V.Abb.CilUdara.
Lugidon mac Declan.
Caurnan becc.
Dianach Epis.
Dimma dubh.

vii. idu«.

7. Cronan Epis.
Modichu.
Corcani.

Donnani Innse Angin.
Dalua Tigbi Bretan.
Ingen Fergna.
Molocae Liphechair.
Ailitri, Abb.

Bri<*e Corpre ocus Dimma.
Emini Sci.
Cormaci Epis.

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CALENDAR OF 1UISH SAINTS.

vi. Idu8.

8. Finan Epis.
Cuacae vir.
Cillini, Abb.
Nechtanan.
Saran Culicremha.
Moshacra Mac Bennain.
Molibba mac Colmadiia fr.
Dagain in-Glinn da locha.

v. Idas.

9. Foclaa Cluana Moescna.
Lorachon Sci.
Suabsegi, Vir.

Finani Saxonis.
Ciaran Ruis-Cumulca.
Brendini.
Baithini.
Guare bic

lv. idus.

1 0. Diarroaid Innsi-Clothrand
Diman Innsi Cain.
Mosbenoc.
Maol Odbraii.
Tomini Ardamacha.

Hi. Idas.

11. Ernini Cluana deochra.
Ernin mac Coemain.
Anfadan Epis Glinni da

locha.
Suibne, Abb. Ia.
Ronani.
Alteni.

Carthinisa Epis.
Feidelmai, Vir.

li. Idas.

12. Laigne mac Garbain.
Foelan Epis.
Conain Ega.

Cuimmine mac Duibh o
Druim druith.

Baithini macNemainn, Abb.
Laidcenn mac Bait banaigh.
Sinell ocus Loicheni.

Idus.

13. Colman.

Mancinn mac Collain.
Ronan ocus Colman cirr.
Moconnae Epis Lemcbailli.
Supplicii Ailill Epis.
Saran Epis.
Doconnae.

Cuairni agus Deuraid.

xix. Kal. Feb.

14. S. Lugei in Inismor.
Baetani Mac Lugei Epis.
Diblini.

Flann fion i Cuillin i Fail

Corcaigbe.
Itharnaisc in Achadh fear-

ta.

zvili. Kal.

15. Airechtaigh ocus.
Kobertaigh in Inis moir.
Seacht n-Eps Droma air-

belaigh.
Dormitatio Itae et Filiarum

Cairpre.
Bricc fheli o Bealach fbeli.
Diarmaid Presbiteri.
Darerca, Vir.
Findcridan Craibhighi.

xvii. Kal.

16. Foelan.
Cilleni.

Ninnida Leth derc.
Jarloga.

Dianach Eps. Droma moir.
Jarloga Lismoir.
Sci. Lithgfin Cluana moir in
h Failglie.

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Dormitatio Fursse.
Diarmaid mac Mechair.
Mouua Maigbi niadh.
Mac Aililla Droma Bairr.

xvi. Kal.

17. ErnainocusHernindoTigh-
ulliain.
Clanneeh o Druimbidc.
Sanctae Micae.
Mokiisse Cilli Molaisse.

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xv. Kal.

IB. Nannidh Innse Samh fo

Loch Erne.
Aedamair Ingen Aedha.
Cobba ingen Baetani.
Scoth ocus Fenimair.
Mochua ocus Rottan.
Blath ocus Ana i Cluain

Grenaich.

xiv. Kal.

19. Fachtna Eps. on Uachong.

bhail, Reidbaircend.
Suibhne mac Eoghaiu.
Molaisse mac h. Nechti.
Ochtedi S.

xiii. Kal.

20. Eccamach-UcaeoLathcain.
Oenu mac h. Laigse Ab.

Cluana mac Nois.
Fecbin Fobhair.
Lochin fil. Duib Diligid.
Lugna Cruimthir o Chill

tarsna.
Cronani.
Ferghus.
Saran.

aril. Kal.

21. SegainCilleSegain.
Inghena Figcradhah.

Fainche Cluana Caein in
Eoganacht Caisil.

Flannmac Lughdach Abb.
Finnglaise.

xi. Kal.

22. Mocholmoc Liosmoir mic

h. Beona.
Lonan fann (fionn)
Umhalghaid ocus Guaire et
Filiarum Comghaill I. Lasii.
ocus Columbae ocus Boghae.

x. Kal.

23. Lucain Tamhnaighe.
Lucas ocus Cainnech.
MocellocoThilaigh Ualann
Mochnopae.

ix.Kal.

24. Batani Metbais Truim.
Esp. Guasacht o Granaritt.
Manchan leith macinDagdae

▼ill. Kal.

25. Moclionna Ernaidhe ocus
Mochua.

Eps. Guaire in Gobhail.
Mac h-Grecca I. finchill.
Finnche o Sleibh Guaire.
S. Aedha Eps.

vii. Kal.

26. Eps.Calb o Thilaigh Cairpat

in Men ha tiri in. h.
Meith.

vi. Kal.

27. Noe Finglaisse.
Luacann Sacart,
Finnbeo Inbhir Melge.
Croni Innse Locha crone.
Noftll Inbhir.

Mugcn Abb. Glinni Uscn.

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v. Kal.

28. Aedhlug Aird Casain.
Cainech (Cainer) ingen Cru-

itbnecbain mic. Laigbue

i. Fail Fobhair.
Acobrani.
Com main;

Eochaidb Esp ocus Ab.Tam-
lagbtan.

ir. KaL

29. Na tri Clarenigb. i. Baetbiui

ocus Segini ocus Cronani.
Mac Conna.
Gilde Eps. et Sapiens.
Dalian mac Forgbaill o

Maighin.

iii. Kal.

30. Cruimtbir Ailbbe.
Huarani.

Cronani Sacerdotis.
Ternoc.

Barinn Inse Domble.
Enani S. Rois Moir.

ii Kal.

31. Lug tire da craebh. i. mac

Eacbaich.
Caiman ocus Sillan Cilli

D<;lga.
Taeda Mac Colman.
Oebhnat find o RosnaSean-

cbae.
Aedb Eps Ferna
Maolan faidh Dairinsi.
Cainech Presbiteri.
Docaemi, Eps.
Docbumma Noendroim.

FEBRUARY.

Kal. Februaril.
1. Dormitatio S. Brigitae lxx.«
anno aetatis suae.

IRISH SAINTS.

Derlugach.
Beon, Vir.
Cinui sac.

Airennanb. Foduibh.
Iv. Non.

2. Motbrianoc mac Aengma.
Colmani Uladhon on Dis>. '
Aithmet Clochair.
Finnchi Duiren.
Colmani.

iii. Non.

3. Colman Mac Dnach.
Cuanna(iGlinni)AbMaigbi

Bile.

ii. Non.

4. Lomman ocus Colman Tam-

lachta Gluidh.
Core ocus Cota o Druinn.
Cuanna Lismoir.
Fuidbecb mac llladon.

Nonas.

5. Liadnan Abb. Fobbair.
Caerae Raitb Moenticb.
Baetain mac Colmain.
Febla, Fingin mic Odbrain.
Dubtacb sac.
HechtacfeVir.

▼iii. Idua.

6. Dura Mac Coluim o Druim

cbrema.
Colman ocus Brandubb o

Loch raunremuir
•Meli Eps.

vH. Tdua.

7. Tri meic,Daire,Lonan ocus

Cretan ocus Maolan,

Mona Maolain.
Mellan Insi mic h. Cuinn.
Fiutan sac. Cluana cain.

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XV.

Maenucan Atha liacc.
Lorn man Locba Uair.
Col man Eps.
Brigit ingean Droma.
Aidi Eps. Sliebthe.
Colmani Eps.

vi. Idas.

8. Colman mac h. Thelluib.
Fiachra Ab., Iraird.

Mac Liac Eps. Liath dro na-
na a.
Cere S. Vir.

Hua ind Egais qui congre-
gavit reliquias Sanctorum
Ruidchi, Vir.
Airdoni.
Failbbe.

Ternoc Ancborita.
v. Idus.

9. Cuarani Sapientis qui et

Crona Mac Nathscman
dicitur vel mac Netha.

Caircc Dergain.

S. Ronani Lios-moir.

Mocolmoc Cluana Iraird.

Crimtir Finnai Droma Licci.

iv. Idus.

10 Cronani fil Mellain is na
Deise ocus i Lis m or.

Darluga Vir. o Leranaigb. i.

Moduit oCill Moduic in I lib
Maine.

Sillani Eps. Glinni da locba
Becga inghen Gabbrain.
Airendan Eps. Tallagbta.

iii. Idus.

11. Mo^oboc Ratba lampaighe,
nomen idem et Go ban
Lappani Mac Ciarain.
Lucbta Alba Fernae.

Dubani Sac.
larlaithi.
Senacbi sac.
Etchani Eps.

Gobnat Ernaidbe, i Mus-

craidhe Mitine.
Finani Eps. Maigbibile, no

Finnain Cluana Iraird.

ii. idus.

12. Siatal Eps.

Aedbcael mac Feradbaigh.

Cronani.

S. Fetbgnai.

Lugaidb Cule Ruscaigh

Cummain o Glinni mona

Conini

Beologa

Finani mac Airennain
Aedban Cluana dartadba

Idus.

13. Modimoc 6 Tiprat Facbtna
Domhangin

Cruacbnat o Cros Facbtna
S. Darci
S. Finani.

xvi. Kal.

14. Manchani Moethla cum

socii8 suis.
Sinach Sratha Irenn.
Commani.

zt. Kal.

15. Fergus mac ^Engusa.
Berrech CJuanaCairpthi.
Forrannan mac Aedba

xiv.

16. Oengus Eps. Ratha nae.

Espuc.
Aedh Glass.
Robni Abb.

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r

CALENDAR OF IRISH SAINTS.

xiU.

17. Fintan CluanaEidnech Abb.
Daconna mac Odraio.
Brelach mac Ficellaigh.
Midu mac Fachtna o Sligid.
Fidcellaigh ?

Ossani Eps.

Loraan in Athtruim cum
sociis. i.e. Patricii Hos-
tiarii Laurech mac Cua-
nach, Fortchern ocus
Coelochtra,Aedha,Aedha,
Aedha Cormaci Eps, Co-
nani, Cuimaeni Eps, Lac-
teani sac, Ossani, ocus
Sarani Couaill ocus CoU
mani, ocus Lactani Eps.
Finnseghi Vir. Hi omnes
in Ath Truim requiescunt.

xii. Kal.

18. Colman . Im, Meuriab fri

Mona i tuaidh ata Colman
Molibbain h.EachachUladh

no in h. Garrchon
(Engus.
Daniel Eps.

Nera Eps. Droma Bertach v
feria semper an. xl. mu.

Huidhrin o Druim dresna.

S. Lasrae Vir. i n-Glinn
medhoin.

xl. KaL

19. Baithin mac Cuanach. Eps*
Maeldobharchon.

Nodtat Eps.

Dego mac Nemnaill

Fechine mac h. Cainchi o

Leammaigh.
Odran Tiri oenaigh.

x. Kal.

20. Cronan.

Colgu mac h. Dunechda.
Eps. Olcan.

ix. Kal.

21. Fintani Coraigh illeam-

chaill no i CluainEdbnecfi.
Colman Airdibo. for bru

Locha Eachach.
Cronan Cille Bicci.

▼ill. Kal.

22. Caemhan Maigbi Mennota.
Guirminni inghen Congbaili
Miadhnat, Airid Drochait.
Moelan, Achaidb.

Feicin Sac.

vii. Kal.

23. Cass, Lcth-glinni
Mannan ocus Trianan, o

Airidl Suird.
Ingena iEngusa.
Cruimtber Connracb.
Findcbadan na b Arda.
Colmani.

Ernine Lethglinni.
▼i. Kal.

24. Cuimini find mac Fiachna.
Mic Feradaigh Abb. Is.
Ciaran h-mesa, I. Aird fota.

Kal.

25. Ciarani Ab.
Caimsea vir.
Crone Tamlachta.
Ciarani Si.

iv. Kal.

26. Cornani, S Glinn Asa
Beccan Cbind-sali.
Moenna.

Ethni.

S. (Edbtugba.

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XV 11.

iii. Kal.

27. Comgani Glinni Usin.
Comman mac h. Themin.

ii. Kal.

28. CruimtherDomhnaigh cum

Firlain h. Foelain.
Tcrnoc.

Dichuill mac Maelduibh in
Airudh Muilt oc Locuibh
Eirne.

Aedh macBricc.

Mosinu mac h. mind id est.

Sillan Ab. Banchoir.

Ernini ingen Airchuin, ea-
dem et Febair.

MARCH.

Kal. Mart.

1 . Saran, Epis.
David Cilli Munc.
Moineod, Epis.
Senani, Epis.
Macnisi, Epis.
Banfota.

Enani.

Cassan mac Nemain.
Baitani Epis. Cluana.
Columbae Cinngaradh.

rl. Non.

2. Fergna Abb. 1».
Finniani.
Lugaidh sac.
Man tan.

Conuill-Cuauchaoin.
t. Non.

3. Moshacra mac Senain i

Tigh Thacra.
Connae Vir.
Ereclach.

Foilend.

Fachtna o Chraebhaig.
Cillene Inse Domhle.
Mochua Cluana Dobtha.
Conaiil S.
Deochain Reat.
Modimoc Eps.
Concrada.
Celicriist.

It. Non.

4. Mucini Maighni.

Noeb Eps. o Clochair bainni

liLNon.

5. CiaranSaighre,ocusCarth ?ch

i Saigbir in uno die ocus
Cartbach mac (Engusa

Droma Ferdaim.
Colmani Isirni.

ii. Non.

6. Odran S.
Furbaidhi.

Maolruain Droma Ratha.
Ingena Lenini.
Carpre cruim [no Cruinu.]
Muadan Cairn furbaidhe.
Moeldub mac Berani.

Nonab-UH-Idua.

7. Senani Inse Catbaigh.
Beoaedh o Airdcarna.
Mocelloc.

Metan oThuaim at hi.
Caritan Droma lara.

viii. Idus.

8. Moconna essa mac Neirc.
Cronani Airdni.
Colmani cirr.

Libreini S.
Molasi mac Aedh a
Ailgniad.

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Xviii. CALENDAR OF

IKISH SAINTS.

Corcbach Guana lothair.
Ciaran.

Conanla Easa Ruaidb.
Liberi S.

Siadaii Chinnlocba.
Mocbua mac Nemain.
Moconna Daire.
Nemain (i. Duir inse.)
Mac Colaim cbirr.

vii. Idus.
9 Brigit inghen Doma i Maigh
lipi.

Setna Droma mic Blae.
Brigit mona milain.
Lugida Cille cule.
Setna Cille ane i Sleibb

Breagb.
Sillani. ,
Colmani Cluana Tibrinni
Dimmae.
Mellse.

Tosai Droma Laidcinn.

vi. Idus,

10. Silvester Eps.

Torman ocus Mac Cruadeni
S. Sftnae.

Failbe bee. Ab. I«.
Fe uigbillEps.

y. Idus.

11. Constantini Brito, no Mac

Fergusa do Crutbnechaibh
Librani.

Libren Cluana fota.
Cuannae ceci.
Findchan Aircisiren.
Mosenoc,no SenanBethrech
iEngbus Eps. h. Aibleni.

iv. Idus.

12. Garalt maighi Eo cum auis

Mocbua Ailiuin

Dagani Eps.
Cilleni Lilcbaicb.
S. Melcoirgeas.

ill. idus.

13. Mochoemog Leith moir.
Conchend.

Cuangusa mac Aililla.
Colman benedic Cluana
tibrinni

ii. Idus.

14. S. Talmaci.
Flanan Cille aird.
Cuimnig.
Coemani.

Ultani b. aighnigh.
Idus.

15. Filiorum trium Nessaini;

Monisu.ocusNesloga ocus
Diuchaill, Trenacb Derg.

Tui ingben EUine.

S. Eugenii.

xrii. Kal.

16. Denacb Innse Detnae.
Abban mac h. Cormaic.
Finan (i. Lobbar) Suird.
Curilani Eps. ocus Ab 1 }.

Ruis mic Bairend.
Esp. Felraac o-Cill Cuanda

(no Tuama.)
Laudani.

xvi. Kal.

17. PatriciiEps.
Nessani Corcaigbe.
Failtigern, Vir.
Tighernach Eps.
Beccani Ruimi.
Gobbani mac Nasair.
Conchend.

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MARTY ROLOGY OP TALLAGH.

Kal. xt.

18. Conall Eps.
Ericbrit Saxonis.
Vloedoc Cluana Escraich.
Tomani Eps.
Coemani Eps.

xiv. Kal.

19. Auxilinus.

Lactain Acbaidh Uir.
Mella Cluana hi.
Mochua Ara«mai.

xiil. Kal.

20. Muccini.

Cutbricti Saxonis (i. Insi

Menoc) Innse Menoc.
Aedan Cluana Maellain.
Caman mac Corae.
Catchan Ratha Turthaighc

xii. Kal.

21. Lucill mac h- Chiara.
Ennae Airne mac Ainmire,

mic Remain, i. tioCream-
thannaibh.

xUKal.

22. Pailbe I*.
Dimmse.

Treno mac Confeid.
Moloco mac Colmain find i.

Lilchaich.
Darercae, II in ocus Degbit-

ghi.

Egressio familiae Brendini.

> x. Kal.

23. S. Treno Cilli Daelen.
Lassair ingben Fintain.
Boetan Monaci.
Trian.

Cairlaini.

six.

Fergusau
Failbe.
Darerca Vir.
Inghena Feradaigb.
Momedoc Fedha Duin, i.
Midhui mac Midgnai.

ix. Kal.

24. Mocbta Lughmagh. Cum.

man matris ejus nomen.
Scire Vir.
Esp. Cairlon.
Fergus a.

Domangart mac Eachach.
Esp. mac Cairtind.
Lughadh mac Eachach o
Cluain Laigh.

viil. Kal.

25. Cammini S.Cumraan nomen

matris ejus.
Enan mac Muadain,
Columb inghen Buiti.

Tii. Kal.

26. SinchemAbb.CbilliAcbaidh
Mochelloc mac Tulodrain

o Chatbir mic Conaich.
Cartacb mac Airbertaigh.
Molocca Lilchaich.
Fintan Achaidh Garbbain.
Goban Ab. Airdni Dairindsi
Lappan.

Cillen Cenannani.
▼i Kal.

27. Mochonnae Maighi Eo.
Suairleach Eps.
Fintan os Psalmorum.
Adventus Reliquiarum Sel-

lani.

v. Kal.

I 28. Sillani.

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CALENDAR OF

IRISEI SAINTS.

Conaill Bps.
Cairoigh Eps.
Cassaui Imduail.

iv. Kal.
29 Mac Lumani Liaich.

lngenaBaite,qure nutriebant
Christum, Ethne ocus So-
delbia nomina carum.

Aedan Dairi Brucais.

Fulartach mac Bricc.

Lerra Vir.

Lasar.

Ailgasach.

ill. Kal.

30. Cronan Balna, i Ceara, i

Connachta.
Colman Linni (i. Casan

Linne)duachill i.e. nomeu

demonis.
Tola Eps. Craibdigh.
Gobani ocus Fergus Eps.
Cronani ocus, Fiachra.
S. Colmani, S. Colmani.
Ferdacrich.
Liber Leth Dumrai.

II. Kal.

31. Faolani fiii Aedha.
Fethaido.

Senioris Murmaige.
Colman am Achaid.
Mella Doire Melle.

APRIL.

Kal.

1. S. Gobbani.

Aidan laech i. Taralachtain
Bairci.

Ttian Mac Cairill mic Gerain

iv. Non.

2. Conall mac Aedha
Bronchi Vir.

iii. Non.

3. Comman mac Domang : n.

ii. Non.

4. Tighearnach Cluana EoaU.
Gall Locha Teiget.

Coini i. Cilli Coine.
Colman Find.
Ultan mac Caitte.
Cronbigi.

CruimthirCorc Cille Moire.
Non.

5. Baptiama Patricii venit ad

Iliberniam.
Becgain mic Cule [Cule]
nomen matris ejus.

viii. Idus.

6. S. Aidech.
Cronbrice Abb. Cluana.
Cathubi Eps.

-Ordinatio Patricii.

Til. Idus.

7. Senan Abb.
Ruissen Innse Pich.
Mac Liac.

FinaniCaimm obliquitas (u it

in oculis ejus.
Senani Eps.

vi. Idus.

8. Aedani Mac h. Suibne.
Cathubi Eps.
Failbhe Erdaim.
Tigernach Airidh.
Ronan Mac mic Fergusa.
Cendfaoladh Abb. Benn-

chair.

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MARXXROLOGY

t. Idua.
9. Brocani.

Aedach mac h. Eichdach.

Senani.

Colmani.

iv. Idus.

10. Eretnatan Vir. et S. Mid-

gusa.
Berchani Eago.
Cuanna, Vir. i Maigh locha

i m Breghaib. i. Rus Eo.

Hi Idus.

11. Moedoch.DunlaingiCluain

Moir.

Aedani Echdroma ocus

Eachfraid.
Scellaini.
Salamonis.
Senani.
Brocani.

Frosaisaigh Anchorita.
Dadnan Eps. Cille cunga.
Senior mac Maeldalua.

ii. Idus.
12 Ernani, Eps.
Connathi, Abb.

Idus,

13. Riagail mac Buachalla.
Mocammoc Innsi cain.
Mac Tarcbair Locha mic

Nina.

xyiii. Kal. Mali.

14. S. Tassaghi.
Colmani.

Cillini mac Lubnain.

xvii. Kal.

15. Mac Draigin o Chill Roa.

OF TALLAGE. XXI.

Ruadan Lothra.
Grellan mac Rodain.
Dubta.

Sarnat Dairinis cetnae.

xvl. Kal.

16. Felicia Diaconi.

Inghen h. Diarmata i Con-

nochta.
Tetgaill mac Colbrain.
Failbe.

17. Lochini Cunga.
Donnani Egba cum sociis.

Hi. quorum nomina in
majore libro scripsiinua.

Eochaidh Lismoir.

Aedhani Mac Garbain.

Lughaidh mac Garbain.

Lughaidh mac Druchta.

xIt. Kal.

18. Moninnsen o Mainistir.
Molaisse Lethghlinne.
Eugenii, Eps.
Cogitosi Sapientis.

Lasar inghen Eccain o Mai-
gh in.

-

xiii. Kal.

19. Lasse Vir Cluana mind.
Mac Ercca o Dermaigh.
S. Cilleni.

xii. Kal.

20. S. Sobairthein S. Setrach

Eps.

Sinaig ocusFlann ocus Moel-
ochtraigh.

xi. K&l.

21. Manlrubach Beannchair.
Edilaldi Saxonis.

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CALENDAR OF IRISH SAINTS.

xxii.

Ninidh Bugno i Tir Bret.
Berach Ab. Bennchair.

x. Kal.

22. Rufini GUnn da locha.

Tommae Bennchair.
Abel mac Aedha, potius

Adam.
Nechtani mac h. Baird.
Saignen ocus Lachaini Ar-

maigi.

Esp. Culen ULem-cbaill.

lz. Kal.

23. S. Ibairi Eps.
Soardlech ind Edhnen.
Mianacb Dechte ocus.

Mianach i Fotbirbhi
Liatbain.

viii. Kal.

24. Ecbtbricbti Saxonis.
Uildbrithi.

Coemnat Cuili cichraaighi.
Coip ingben Carnain ocus
Secbtan ocus Secbtmisid.
Diarmaid Eps.
Lugaidb Sac.
Mac Becgani.
. Fincheille, Vir

Eicneacb mac Concathrach.

vil. Kal.

25. Mac Caille Eps.
Digde, Vir.

Dechonen Cluana Arathair.
Lugna Lettrach.
Inghena Cuanain.
Matoc Ailithir.
Ailithir Cluana-geisse.

vi. Kal.

26. Caiss Bennchair.
Isaac.

Conani.

Beccani Cluana aird.
Modimoc Cluana cain.
Cronani.
Senani.

v. Kal.

27. Baain.
Ultani.
Fergusa.
Furudrain.

1?. Kal.

28. Cronani Ruis Cre qui prius
Mocbua nominatur.
Suibne i Sceillic.
Concbind Cilliachaid. •
Lucthigern mac Cutrita.
Caurnan Cluana each.

ill. Kal.

29. Fiachnae.

Coningen .i. Cuacb i. Ci

Finn Maigbi.
Breccan Ab. Maigbe Bili
Do man gin o Tbuaim Mus-

craidhe.
Donnani Sac.
Fail be i n-lnis.
Enani, Eago.

ii. Kal.

30. Ciaran Cluana Sasta.
Failchon Eps.

Luta, Vir. Dromadairbreach.
Ronan Liath ros.
Familia Eago ut quidamdi-
cunt.

MAY.

Kalend Mail.

1. Mocboemi Tiri da glas.
Colman i Gaibnedhi.

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MART YROLOGY OF TALLAGH.

• • •
XXlll.

Osseni mac Maillsnechta.

Ultani.

Mancheni.

Hanbani Eps.

Braccani Eps.

Aedgein, Fobhair.

Romani.

Dicholla Cluana brain.
Cellani h. Fiachrach.

vi. Non.

2. Necbtain o Cill uncbi i

Conailibb i Fidb Conaillc
Aedani mac Cuamsie.
Enani.
Colmani.

v. Non.

3. Roncend.

Connlai Cilli dara, Eps.
Scannali Chilli conbraind.
Barrinn Droma Cula.
Clotbaighi.

Carpre Eps. Maighi bile.

Aithghin Boithi.

Aedani.

Neccani.

Fergusa.

Concraid.

Donnani,

Mochonna Dai re.

Inghena Osseni.

Daircholla Glinni da loch a.

iv. Non.

4. Mochua mac Cummini i

Sleibb Eibhlinni.
Aeda mac Bricc.

iii. Non.

5. Eucbbricht Saxonis.
Faolan Find CilU Col ma.
Senani

ii. Non.

6. Col man Locha ethin.

Nan.

7. Breccan Echdroma oeus

Ciaran, idem et Mocia-
rocc.
Lasre, Vir.

riii. Idui.

8. Odrani Eps.

Tli. Idus.

9. Lamruaid.
Brennan Bioror.
Dabreccoc Tuama Dreman.
Banban Sapientis.
Sanctan i Cill da les.

▼i. Idas.

10. Co mh gall Benchairxci.anno

aetatis ejus : principatiis
anno lmo. annoet mensi-
bus tribus et decern die-
bus.

Aedha.

Conmae.

Finntani.

Connla ICps.

Mac Lemruin.

Moshinoc Cluana Caichne.

v. Idas.

11. Caoimghin Glinni da locha,

Abb.
Findloga.

Critani mic Iladon.
Cormaic in Achadh Finn-

maighi.
Luguir Infirmitas.
Laeghairi lobbar.
Columcain.
Lasrea Vir.
Finntani Cluana cain.

■

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CA LEND A It OF IRISH SAINTS.

xxiv.

Maoldoid.

j£lgnei.

Mucritoc i. Critan mac
Illadon ocus Crurathir
Cormac, ocus in Arainn
ata Ise ro imcomairce do
diabol cinnas ro seised h
nemh. Ad quern Diabol us
dixit. Diamba Cleirech
uirbat irach.

iv. Idas.

12. Dirama mac Caiss.
Ailitir Muccinsi.
Ere i maigh Leis.
Nasci.

Lughaeth mac jEngusa.
Herneni.

ill. idus.

13. S. Mochonnai ocus Moeili-

doid.
Dubliter ocus.

ii. Idut.

14. Carthaighii-Mochutta Lis

moir.

Garbani ocus Laisre.
Maelcetair mac Ronain.

Idus.

15. Sarani mac Airecbtair o inis

moir in h. mac Gailli.
Dublitir Ab. Finnglaisse.
Co) una mac Faolgasa.
Golman mac h. Laighsi.
Gomman mac Dimmae.
Cainaech Airecuil.
Golum Insi Locha Gre.

xvii. Kal.

16. Brendini Cluana Ferta.
Boetii cujus nomen erat

Breg-boesach filii Brondii

Fidhmune i. h. Suanaigh.
Mac Lasre Ab. Bennchoir.
Gairnigh o Tuilein.
Ernani mac Aodha.
Odran sac.
Mochamail

Duthracht Liath Droma.
Finnchadh Ep.
Finntan Cluana Cruaich.

xvi. Kal.

17 Sillani Eps.
Finnen.
Gritan Esp.

Finnchani Droma Eoaigh

ocus Ioghena Garbain.
MicGuaslaingi o Cbluauaibh

xt. Kal.

18. Firdacricb.
Moroedoc Feda duin.
ModomnocTiprad Facbtnai.
Esp. Col main.

Bran bice o Gblaonadh.
Midgus macEircGillitaillten
Bresal o Dirthacb.

xiv Kal.

19. Diuir Enaig.
Ceir.

Ciaran mac Golgan.

RiciUi Vir.

Garadic.

Brittan Ratha.

Tri mic Eoghain.

Cuimmine mac Baetain.

Mocbouuae Chilli Comartba

xlil. Kal.

20. Cruim Ditruib (Laidcind)

o Inis Gruind.
Golman Daire moir.
Dainel Tulchan.
Mac Laithbe Domnaigbmoii

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XXV.

xii. Kal.

21. Colraan Cron.
Cummine roac Luigdeach.
Colraan Lobar Maighe Eo.
Moenind ocus Polan.
Maelidoid o Lismor.
Barrfinn Droma cula.
Brighit inghen Dim main.
Finnbairi Corcaighi.

xi. Kal.

22. Baithini mic Finnach.
Ronani find o Lan Ruadain

Ronain, in manu recenti.
Luigsech Vir.
Eodusa o Mai gin.
Na teora cailleacha Droma

da dart.
Conaill Insc Cail.
Caisin Sen durase.

x. Kal.

23. Gobani Mairgi o Tigh Scu-

thin.

Cremtand Maighi Duma.

Faolchon.

Com man.

Strofan Cluana moir.
Nechtlaicc Eps.

ix. Kal.

24. Colman.
Sillani.

Aedbi Ab. Tirdaghlas.
Stellani in Inis Celtra.
Berchani Cluana cai.
Segin Airdmacha.
Sccht ningena Fergusa in
Inis Cealtra.

viii. Kal.

25. Dunchadh Abb. Iae, i. mac

Cennfaelaidh.
Mocbolla inghenDiomo.

Modomnoc.

Cruimther Cael Cilli raoiri.
vii. Kal.

26. Colman stellainTiridagblass
Becani Cluana aird.

▼i. Kal.

27. Esp. Cillin o Tigh Talain.
Commaigh inghen Eachdach

ocus Maelan ocus Cuin-
toc Snamha Inthair,

Echbritan roac Ossu.

Esp. Ethirn o Domhnach
mor

Kal.

28. Maelodran.
Sillan.

Eoghan Sapiens.
Furudrain hillann Tuirriu.
Secht n. Esp. o Thigh na
Comairce.

ir. Kal.

29.Cumne Vir. i. Ingen Alleain
in Aird Ulladh.
Dairii.

Maeltuile ocus Mobeccu.
Brunsecia Vir.

iii. Kal.

30. Goban Airdni Dairinsi.
Saergusa bile.
Ernine.

11. Kal.

31. Firdacrich.

Eoghan Eps et Sapiens

Maighi Cremhcaille.
Moelodran Slaani.

JUNE.

Kal. Junii.

1. Cronani Lismoir.

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XXVI. CALENDAR OF

Egol disert Eegoilse.
Leban Atha eg&is.
Curamini.

iv. Non.

2. Senani.

Nainnid Cluana usend.
Foim.

lii. Non.

3. Etchii.
Zephani.
Didae Vir.

Coemgin Abb. Clinni da
locha.

Auitren loco anchoritse.
Affine ocus Glunshalaich.
Esp. Sillen.
Esp. Branduibh.

li. Non.

4. Finchani.
Molua Etardroma.
Col man Cruimthir.
Colum sac Cluaia Emain.
Cassain Domnaigh moir Pt-

tair.

Mochual Cichech.
Faithlenu mac AodhaDara
hain.

Non.

5. Finnloga ocus Learn i Gill

gobuil.
Brocan Cluana mic miad.
Berchaini.

▼ili. Idus.

6. Coccae.

Claraioech, Cluana caoin.

Lonani.
Maelathgeani
Faelani.
Medrain Eps.

IHISH SAINTS.

Esp. Colmani.

v i. Idus.

7. Columbae Mon.
Mochonne.

Coemhan Airdne Coemhan.
Colum Gobbae.
Mocolmoc Dromma moir.

vi. Idus.

8. Murchon mac h. Machteni
Cormac h. Liathain.

Med ran.

Broin Esp. Caisil.
Luaitrind Achaidh Coraind.
Airmedach a Cunga.

v. Idus.

9. Columbae Cille ocus B&i th-

ine.

Amalghaidh mac Eacbach.
Dafhinna mac Declain.
Mothone Uomnaig Cliabra.
Cruimther mac h. Nessi.

iv. Idas.

10. Ainmirech Ailich.
Santan Esp.

llladan mac Eucdacho Faith

Liphiten.
Forchellach Fobhair.
Senbeirech chuile Dremni.
Maeliduin S.
Retach mac Coemain.
S. Ferdomnaigh.

lii. Idus.

H. Mac Tail Cille Cullinn qui
et Eoghan prius dictus
est.

Riagail Benncliair.
Inghena Laisren i Cill culc
Tochumracht Vir.

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MART VROLOG V OF TALLAOH. XXvii.

ii. Idas.

12. Coemani Airdni i Santletan
Torumeni mac h. Birn i.

Ailithir, Locha uane.
Diucaill Achaidh na Cro.
Locheni.
Cronani.
March on.

Tarannan, Ab. Bandchair.

Idus.

13. Mac Nisi Ab. Cluana mac

nois.
Carilla i Tir rios
Damnat Slcibhe Betba.
Esp. Branduibh.
Mocumse Cruimther Cluana

Tiprat.

iviii. Kal.

14. Nem mac b. Birn.
Col man mac Luachain.
Ciaran Bealaigh Duin.
Cuman Becc o Tamnaigh.

zvii. Kal.

15. Sinell h. Liathain.

Col man Mac Corardain o
I m leach Bren.

xvi. Kal.

16. Cethig Eps. S. Patricii.
Setna Eps. mac Treno.
Aitbeacbani Colphtho.
Lugo sac.

Colman mac Ro Ab Re-
cbraind.

xr. Kal.

17- Edani Nigri.

Cellani Mic Finain.
Totholani.

Colmani Mic Luacbain.
Meic Nechtain DroinaBricci

Moling Luaim.
Mochommoc mac Dobor-
chon.

xiv. Kal.

18. Furodrain ocus Baitbin.
Da mhac Mainain.
Colmani Mic Micii.

xiu. K

J 9. Cassani Cluana Raitte.
Faillie o Thalincht.
Coelain o Daire cboelaine.
Moloraae Doranaigh Imlech

xii. Kal.

20. Faelani amlabair i Sraith

Eret in Albain.

xi. Kal.

21. Cormac h. Liathain in Der

maigb.
Diarmait on Disiurt.
Suibne Eps. o Cbobran.

x. Kal.

22. Mocbua Luachra idem, ocus

Cronan o Fcrna.
Suibne Ab.
Guaire Bic

Crunmacil mic Ronain.
x. Kal.

23. Mocboe sac.Ab. Noendroma
Foelaine S. et nuarum Moi-

nanl

viii. Kal.

24. Cormac Sencometa.
Lon Cilli Gabra.
GabrinL

yii. Kal.

25. Sincbell Cille Achaidh.
Moluoc Lis raoir

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XXV111.

CALENDAR OF IRISH SAINTS.

Ingena Ninguir.
Uiil mac segin.

vL Kal.

26. Soadbair Eps.
Colman Partraigbi.
Lachtan.

v. Kfll.

27. Aedba.
Scandal i Ouain.
Dimtnau.
Drochan.

iv. Kal.

23. Crnmine i Leacan Midhe.
Ernine Chiain find.
Bigesgi Vir.

iil. Kal.

29. Moeldoid i Failbhe mac

Daire ocus Fealdobor ocus
Cocca Ruis B?and choir.
Cain Comrac Chinnehui
Connan Eps.oTigh Collain.

ii. Kal.

30, Coclan Daboc.
Falbe o Cill eo.
Sporoc ingcn Coluim.

JULY.

Kal. Julil.

1. Coromai Eps.
Lngidii inac Lugei.
Ultani.

Ailella Esp. Clnana Emain.

Barrinu.

Sillini.

Catbbadh.

Ultani.

vi. Won.

2. Ternoc Cluana moir.
Ingbena Cathbadh in Airiud

v. Non.

3. Dartinni V. ocus Colrnam

inghen Guaire i.e. Cille

aird in h. Ercain.
CilUue Ab. Iae.
Ultan.

iv Non.

4. Finbarr Ab. Innse Domle.
Boioan i Cill chule.

iil. Non.

Fergusa o huamaigh.
Etain Vir. Tuama noadh.

ii. Non.

6. Moninni SleibbiCulennqusc

et Darerca prius dicta est
Tri ingena Erni oc Enuch

Dirmaighi.
Fedchonniad.
Fuidbech.

Tri ingena Maine in Airiud
Boinne 1 Derraor ocusEtne
ocus Cumraan.

Non

7. S. Tiugmaicb Eps.
Maolruain Eps. Tamlacbta.
Cronae.

Bicce.

Fiadabair Uacbtair Acbaid.
Comgell ingen Diarmata.

Till Idus.

8. Broccan Scrilmid.

Di arm ait Glinne huisen.

Colman Imramha.

Trea Aird-trea.

S. CeliaDi Scotti martyris
cum Sanctis fratribus
Aedh ocus Tadg ocus
Amarma conjuge Regis
Gotuorum truucati a pre-

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MARTYROLOGY OP TALLAGII.

posito domus regiae iu
ippodronjia Palatii regis.

vii Idus.

9. Garban sac. Cinntsaile.
Onchon.

Condmac Atha silain.
Broccaid.

▼I. Idus.

1 0. Cuaini h Airbir in h. Cend

selaigh.
Aodh Deochain ic Crich-

maiue.
Ultani.
Senani.

▼. Idas.

11. Mac Conlocae, Falbi nomen

ejus in Disiurt mic Con-

lochae i Curchib.
Colman mac Cronain.
S. Gabtinae V.
Lonan Arda Crainn.
Berran.

iv. Idus.

12. Nazair o Liath.
Colman Bruicisi.

iii. Idus.

13. Mosiloc Cluana Daethcain.

ii. Idas.

14. Onchon mic Blaithmic.
Coiman Mac Andgein.

Idas.

15. Ronani mic Magi.
Comman mac Dimmai.
Mac Ercain o Bruigh long.

x?iil. Kal. August.

16. Gobbani.
Torptha.

Maolodhar o Brimolt.
Hillarmi.

Breccan Cluan Oathe.
Scoth Cluana raoescna.

zvl. Kal.

17. Flainni Inber Becce.
Corpnatae.

Sistan sac for Loch Melge.
xv. Kal.

18. Failbe mac CruaichDibich.
Dubh mac Comairdae.
Cellach macDunchadaRegis
Cronan mac h. Lugada.
Miannach mac Failbe.

xiv. Kal.

19. Fergusa Sci.
Corbran Cluana.

Ciaran o Tigh h. nGortigV
O^sin o Thergaidh cms

Coeca Manach imbi.
Mocolmoc mac h. Amla.
Aedhan Ab. Lismoir.

xiii. Kal.

20. Faelchon.
Curifini.

Molocliae Sleibe BladUma.

Caramuani.

Failbe.

xii. Kal.

21. Secht n. Eps. Tamhnaigbe.
Lugan Sax.

Bradge.

Sillau Glinn munire.
Curcaise Cille Curcaise.

xi. Kal.

22. Dobi Innse Cumsmiidh.
Dobeodoc.

Col um.
Oiseni Eps.

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XXX. CALENDAR OP

Moronoc Droma Samraidh.
Moroecha mac Naeb.
Colmani.
Lugidii,

z. Kal.

23. Lasre.
Cronsegi.
Banbnatan.
Runach Innsi Moire.
Fullenn Atha Innich.
Cain Cooirac Innsi Oen-

daimh.
Esp. Fcthcon.

Ix, Kal.

24. Declan Airde Moir.
Lugbei Drorao Bo.
Corodni.
Gronaini.

Blaithmac mac Flainn,(An.
823.)

Com gall mac Tadc o Cluain

Diamair.
Satanal martir.
Oilleoc Cluana Etchen.
Fergusa.

▼Hi Kal.

25. Colroan idem acMocholmoc

h. Fiachrach.
Fiahrach.
Colani.

Deocani Nesain.
Findbairr Sac.
Fiachra coel Cluana Cain.
Moshiloc DaltaM )iing.
"Ninnio senior.
Crestain Oteni.

vii. Kal,

26. Thomani.
Nessani Mungairit.
Fu'udrani Eps.

IRISH SAINTS.

▼i. Kal.

27. Beogani Ab. Maighi Bile.
Lasrain Tiprat oss.

v. KaL

28. Furudraini S.
Colman Gabla limn.
Lenican. Uisseoit

iv.Kal.

29. Biti Innsi Caumscridh.
Coelani Innsi Celtra.
Cummine mac Araide.
Coman mac Finnbarr.
Justan Lene manach.

Hi. Kal.

30. Colmani Eps.
Maoltuile mac Mochuire.
Sarani.

Febrithae.

Cobarchair Gulbain Guirt

mac h. Gairb.
Aodh mac Brice i Sleibh

Liacc.
German mac Guill.

31. Colman mac Darane o Daire

mor.

S. Natali i Cill manach.
Iarnoc Ailithir, Uagh in
curp.

Papan i Sentreibh t ocus
Follomon meicNatbiriach

AUGUST.

K 'l, August.
1. ColumbaeEps. i. mac Riagail
Morioc Innse Lugeni.
Arun Esp. Cluana caoin.
Mica Ernaidbe.
Sai an Bend chair.

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MARTY 110 LOO Y OF TALLAOU.

xxxi.

Tri meic Lussen litnsi moir
(I. Liber ocus Failbe otus
Olbe.)

Nathi chule Sacaille.

Lachteni Fothirbe.

ly. Non.

2. Comgan cele de.
Cobran Cluana cuanlach.
Lonan mac Lasre.
Fechine sac.

iii. Non.

3. Trea inghen Chairthind.
Mochua Crochain.
Aedban Cluana tarbh.
Fethilimmed Cille mair.

ii. Non.

4. Molua mac Ochei Cluana

Ferta.
Bercan Cluana Sosta.
Midnat Cilli Lucinne.

Non.

5. Dee.st quintus dies videndus

in alio codice.

▼ill. Idus.
6 Cronan fil. Lugdach idem et
Mochua Cluana Polcain.
Lugbaidh Cluain fobhair.
Dusech for Loch Cuan.
Erne Cluana Railgech-
Molibba Goirt chirb
Echi Cille Glaisi.

vii. Idus.

7. Moloccao Thilaigh olaind.
Senani.
Daire Dor.

Temnani Linn duachail.
Cronaui Maighi Bile.

vi. Idus.

8. Colmaui E\ s. Innsi Bo

Finni aetatis smc qui.—
Darii Vir.

Curcach Cluana Lothair.
Beoain mU Nessan i Fidh
Cullend.

v. Idus.

9. Nathi Sac. Achadh Conaire
Tri h. inghena Ailalla.
Barran Vir.

Cruimthir Riaghain.
Feidhilmethie.
Ultani.
Leabani.

Molochae Macliage.
Ccithri meic Ercain.
Ciarani.

Ceithri meic Dimmain.

Brecani.

Udnochtad.

Curitani hi omnes i Cille

moir Ditruib.
Rathnat Cille Uathnaite.
Colruan mac BaitUin Druim

Ratha.

iv. Idus.

10. Blaani Ep. Cinngaradh in
GallghaedelaibhUdnochtan.
Maolruain cum reliqniis

Sanctorum et virgin um
ad Taralachtain venit.
Cummine Ab. Droina Bo.

iii. Idus.

11. Airerani Sapiens et Ab.

Tamblactan pro Maeile-

ruain.
Etrachtae Vir.
Indectae Vir.
Todile.

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xxxii

CALENDAR OF IRISH SAINTS.

Banbnatan.
Ingena Dutu.
Ingena Senaich.
Inghena Dondain.

ii. Idus.

12. Molaisi mac Deglain Iunse

Muiredhaigh.
Segine Ab. Iae.
M u rcb adb ( M ui redhech po-

tius) o Cill alaidh.

Idas.

13. Momedoc Feda duin.
Br git Cluana diailama.
Molocae mac Cairthen.

xix. Kal.

14. Facbtna mac Mongan o Kos

Ailithir, in t-sair.
Diuil Mac an t-sair Eps. ocus
Abb.

Dairinnse, Maolanfaicih.

Brocan Mac Lugdach.

Cummine.

Caemani.

Aicclig.

xvlii. Kal.

15. Firdacrioch et S. Sarani et

fitiarum Carpre.

xvii. Kal.
1C. Lugain Si.

xvi. Kal.

17- B^ccnni Sci.

S Eoani raic Cairlain.

Fortheto.

Ernani.

Tuchai.

B«ccani.

Temmiani mon.

xv. Kal.

18. Daigh Mac Cairill Innse

cain.
Martan.

Ernini Mac Creisini, o
Raitb nui in h. Garrchon.
Colraan chule.

xiv. Kal.

19. M<>ehta Lngraadb
Euan Droraa Rathe.

xlii. Kal.

20. Mothrianoc Ruscaigh.
Lasar o Chill arealgaich.
Conchan o Chaelchad.

xil. Kal.

21. Sinach Esp Cluana Iraird.

Mogin Mor.
Celbae ocus Masse.
Unchan Tughneda.

xi. Kal.

22. Cummene ocus Sae Sinche.
Sedracb Eps.

Beogaes Mac Daighri, Abb.
Benncboir.

x. Kal.

23. Eogban Esp Arda Sratha.
Sect nesp. Domnaigbmoir,

Elmaighi.

ix. Kal.

24. Patricii Abb. ocus Ep. Ruia

dela.

Patricii bostiarii ocus Abb.,
Airdraacha.
Geldarii.
Faelan.
Segini.
Abbani.

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MART Y HO LOGY OF TALLAG1I.

xxxiii.

viil. Kal.

25. Sillani mac Finncoin Ep.

ocus Abb. Maighi Bile.
Broccaai i Maighin.

vii. Kal.

26. Faelan Cluana Moescna.
Com gall h. Sarain.

vl. Kid.

27. Usaille mac h. Baird.
Aidani.

y. Kal,

28. Feidhilmidh mac Crimthain

iv. Kal.

29. Muadan Airecail Muadain.

iii. Kal.

30. Firdacrich.

Cronan Cluana andobliair.
Loarn sac.Achaidhinoir.

ii Kal.

31. Aedhan Eps Iunsi Medcoit.
Cronan Diaconi.

Senan Atha omna.
Aedh, Martir.
Aedh Mac Maine.
Colum Cuile.

SEPTEMBER.

v. Non.

4. Ultan mac b. Conchobar.
Comgall Boithi Conais.
Senani.

Comen Abb. Droma Sue-
achta.

Sarbile V. Focbairde mur-

theimhne.
Failbe Mac Konain i Guam

Airbelaig.

Nun. iv.

5. Eolang Achaidbo.
Eolog Anchoritae.
Elacba ocus Duibsuile.
Faithlenn Deocboin.

iii. Non.

6. Mac Cuilinn Esp. Luscca.
Colum o Rosnossaire. (i.
Colum Midisil.)
Giallani.

Tocbunni.

Sciath o Fiort Sceitbe. i
Muscraidhe tre Muigbi.

Adventus reliquiarumScethi
Alias Mecbi ad Tamlachta.

ii. Non.

7. URani.

Sillani Eps. i Toitae for

Locb Eachacb.
Elair Loca ere.
Molasi S. vel hie Mao Cu-

lind.

Nonas.

8. Finntani Airdcain ocus Mac

Talaraigh, ocus Maele-

cashi.
Fergus Cruitbnech.
Cruimther Catha Mac Aen-

gusa i Cluaiu Eoramne.

via. Idus.

9. Ciaran mac an t-sair.
Ferdacrich.

Findbarr Cille Cunge, i Bro-
ednea et Sae Cerae, Vir.

Mocbotae Droma. i. mac
Dergain.

S. Darei cse.

CouaU mac Jingusa i. an
Teiccess.

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CALENDAR OF IRISH 8AINT9.

Aithgein Eps. Maigh Bile.
Noebb ingena Enaigh loeg.

vii. Idus.

10. Ennio mac h. Fiatach.
Senaig Gairbb.
Finnbar mac Bindi et
S. Segen, Ab.
Ailbbe Loiligh.
Lucill ocus Odran.
Fergus mac Guaire.

vi. Idus.

11. Sillani in Imlig Cassain,
i Cuailgni.

Colruan Eps. Ailbi.
Conamhail.

Daniel Eps. Bennchair.
Mosinu.

v. Idus.

12. Molaissi Daimhinsi i. mac

Natfraich.
Aeilbhc Eps.Imlecba.
Colman Eps. Abblae.
Mac Lasre.

iv. Idus.

13. Dagan Sac. Mac Colniada

lnbbir doile.
Neman mac h. Duibh.

iii. Idus.

14. Coeman Brecc ic Ross ech.
lughena Coluim i Caiili-

follomon.
Colum i Cremtannaibb.

ii. Idus.

15. Lasair Cluana raoir.

Anmeiri Cluana fodba.

Idus.

16. Monenn Cluana Conaire.
Lasriani.

I

♦ Molaisse mac Lugair.
Aireni.
Senani.
Catbbad.
Colmani.
Coeman.
Anfadan.
Auxilii.

xviii. Kal. Octb.

17. Broccan Roisiuiric.
Giallani Eps. o Laind.
Erci Eps o Domnach mor

Maighi Cobba.
Cummine, Abb. i. Damoirne.

xvli. Kal.

18. Edain Droma Rathe.
Gemae Vir. Riacc Innse.
Moelcanaigh.

Fergna Presb.
Giallani Lainni.
Foendelach.

xvi. Kal.

19. Mac oigi Sac.
Zephani
Anci.

Fintani, Abb.
Coragell, Vir.
Fergus Cruithnech.
Faendelacb.
Saran mac Trenaich.

Kal. xv.

20. Desunt hie 20 et 21.

Kal. xiii.

22. Barrfin.

Aedh mac Senaigh.
Colmani mac Cathbadh
i Midisiul.

Kal. xii.— ix.

23. Adomnani, Ab. lae et S.

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MARTVttOLOGV

Ciarani ocus Coimnaiain
Counich Mic Luachain.

viU. Kid.

24 Cailcon Cluana Airthir.
Cellachan Cluana Tiprat.
Failchon Findglaisse ct
Filiarum Cainaech i. maigh
Locha.

vii. Kal.

25. Modain i. in Ailbe.
Ruine.

Colmani Sci.
Barrinn Corcaighi.
Senan, Eps. Corcaighe.
I m chad.
Coelan.

Linell Droraa broon.
Colmani Comraire.

Ti. Kal.

26. Colraan Lainni Eia 55 anno

aetat.

Colraan Ruis Branduib vel
hie Barrind Corcaighe.

v. Kal.

27. Suibni Si.
Columbani elevatio.
Finniani.

Erneni h. Briain.
Finnanie Mac Coppain.

iv. Kal.

28 Diarmait mac Lucnaid o
Cluain Fidnaighi.
Junilli Infirrai.
Fiachrach, Eps.

iiLKal.

29. Columbae, Si.
Murgaili.

ComgUU mUitis Christi.

)F TALLAGH. XXXV.

Sedrach cum reliquiis Mac

Ieir.
Nessan Uladh.

II. Kal.

0. Faelani.
Connne Sac.

Creber. „

Brigittae.

Senani.

Mochonna Cuairne.
Lassar inghen Lochain.
Broncein Lethet corcraidbe
Ailithir Eps.
Lugaid Airthir Achaid.
Mubi Clarenech Doranaigh
Broc.

Comesd Sac.Domnaig aires.

Rodan ocus Daighre o Clu-
ain Achuir.

Bresal o Derthaig.

Foelan Ra:ha Aidme.

Airmer Craibdec o Brec-
raaigh.

OCTOBER.

Kal. Octob.

. Doitheranach Fedba duin.
Cloth raine Innsi duine.
Sinell sac Maighi Bile.
Colraan.
Fiotan.

Colraan Mac Duach frater

Cassain.
Fidairle b. Suanaigh.

vi. Non.

Here, Eps.Oiumine (.]. Si-

inul) G Lilian.
Odran Lafhracha.
Maelduib bic, ocus
Luadrain, Abb.

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XXXVI.

CALENDAR OF IRISH SAIXT3.

v. Non.

3. Colman ela not.
Mac Rethi.
Nuadu Anchoiita.
Sechi neps Cluana cua.

iv. Non.

4. Colmani ocus Tinani.
Senach.

Mac Caille.
Modgrinn.

Mofhinoc mac Cuacha.

ill- Non.

5. Adventus reliquiarura
Sanctorum, quas. Mac Inde-

giss congrgavit.
Dalocha.
Colmani, Eps.
Forirthich.

Sinche, Vir, inghen Fcrgna
o Cruachan Maighi olraa.
Duibh.
Beathellaigh.

11. Non.

6. Aedha.
Baithine.
Colmani
Diureni.
Lugech, ScL

Firdacrich i. Dairo eidnich

Non.

7. Colmani S.

Cellagi (Saxonis) Diaconi in

Glinn da locha.
Comgilla, Abb.

viii. Idus.

8. Cellan Presb.
Moelifitrigh.
Ciaranl.
Conamla.

vii. Idus.

9. Finntan, Ab.

Aedan tn ac h. Cuind.
Dinertaigh Cluana moir.
Mac Tail.

vi. Idus.

10. Finntan Droma Ing.
Silani.

v Idus.

1 1. Cuimther i. Fergnae.
Sennani, Eps.
Lomman in Athtruira cum
S S. omnibus et Fortcern.
Cainighi mic h. Dalai ti

lxxxiv. anno aetatis suae.

iv. Idus.

1 2. Mobi Clarineach mac Beoaid

do chorcutri do Lugnibh
Connacht.
Uanfind inghen Barrind
amathair.

Berchan, Abb. Glaisinoendo.
Fiac ocus Fiachra ejus filius

cum eo i Sleibhte.
Sillnatam.
Becc.
Aedani.
Diarmuit.
Baithen.
Foelani.
Breccani.

Hi Idus.

13. deeatdiesl3. Kal. wanting

ii. idus.

14. Colum Innsi Cain Sac,

Idus.

15. Nativitas Colmani MicLenin

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MARTXROLOGV OF TALLAGH. XXXvii.

BoithinL
Cuani.
Maelicosne.
Cronae, Vir.
Connaai.

Galmae et soror Ultain.

zvii. Kal.

16. Riagail Muccinnsi.
Colmani Cilli Kuaidh.
Coemgeni.

Critani Sci.
Cere Mia Duibhrea.
Bricc Taicthig.
Coemani S.
Coluinbae S.
Coibseuaigh, Eps.

xri. Kal.

17. Colmani, Abb.
Eoghan Lismoir.
Conlid. ?

xv. Kal.

18. Motheca Ruscaighi.
Moluanen Tamlachta.
Colman Abb. mac Cortgid.

xiv. Kal.

19. Failani Sci.
Colmani Bain.
Cronan Droraa Ingin.
Maigniu Cille Maighnein.
Cronan Cule lugdidh.

xill. Kal.

20. Colmani S.

Colman Droma Greine.
Fintani.
Maelduibh.
Aedhani Si.
IngeU Maighi Eo.

xii. Kal.

21. Finntan mac Tulchan i.

Munnacum Sanctis mon-
acbis qui subjugo ejus
faciunt quos non uret
ignis judicii. Quorum ista
sunt nojuina : Lasrian et
Comain et c cetera : Alio-
ruui nomina scripsimus iu
magno. [libro].

Mochuoc h. Liathain.

Mancini Lobur.

Moelauaigb (Maelathgein).

xi. Kal.

22. Cilleni S.
Sarani.

x. Kal.

23. Dalbach Cuie Colla.
Cilliani mac Toidnaim.
Colmani Sci.
Maeletule mac Tiaiu.
Laidcend.

Colcani.

ix. Kal.

24. Lenani Cluana Tibrindi.
Colmani mac Fuidiccain.
Coeti.

Findgani mic Airchinnigh

o Damair.
Esp Eoain o Chill Airthir.

viii. Kal.

25. Lasriani fllii Nasci ocus
Maeluider.

Conac.
Beoc.

Lasriu Mac Coluim.
Duthrucht Lemcbaille.

rii. Kal.

26. Nasad. fieoani, Mellain, tret

B

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ZXXVlii. CALENDAR OF

IBISH SAINTS.

sancti de Britannia et in

una ecclesia sunt in h.

Echach Uladh i Tamh-

lachtain huuiail ic Loch

Briccrenn.
Filiarum mic Ieir. iv.
Dairinill, Dairbellln, Cael

ocus Comgell i Cili Maig-

nend.

vi Kal.

27. Abban Mac h. Corroaic.
Augustini Beancair.
Colraan h. Fiachrach 1 Sen-

botha folu.
Secht meic Stiallain o Raith
Esp Ere Domnaigh moir

Maighc luadat.
Odrani sac, Lettracha vel o

Hi.

Airennain o Tigh Airennain.
i Midhe.

v. Kal.

28. Mobeoc.

Conan ocus Nathi.
Beoan ocus M ell an.
Suibne Dorbeni, Abb. Iae.

iv. Kal.

29. Cuani Sci.
Findcani.
Aedh glas

Fonere domnaigb(?)
Lauran o Daire Lurain.
Caelani o Tigh na nianach.

iii. Kal.

30. Mocolmoc Abb. Camsa. i.

mac h. Gualae no mac b.
Gaille,de Gailinni de Ull-
taib do, ocus illaind.
Rlirnich mic Echin.

il. Kal.

31. Faolani martyris fratris Fur-
su.

Comiani Abb. et aliorum
lxviii.

* * * *

[November, and first sixteen
days of December, wanting. See
defect supplied in Alphabetical
Catalogue from Martyrology of
Donegal.]

xvi. Kal.

17. Toliaci Sancti.
Senchaid o Dubad idem et

Cail.

Moedoc mac Muirein.
Molioc.

xv. Kal.

18. Maigninn o Cill Maignend.
Modicu.

Emin.

Moeldub Cluana Conaire.

Colraain.

Cumini.

Libani.

Seanan Cluana Mar.
Rignaige inghen Feradhaigh
Flannan mac Toirdealbach.
Muinis Eps. Abb. Forgnaige
Mac Cathbadh o Miliuc.
Aedgein Arda lonain.
Coeman Ruis Cruithnechain
Salutatio Mariae ab Elizab.
matre Johannis.

ahr.

19. Cruimther Fraoch o Clnain

Cullaing.
Samtann Cluana Bronaigh.
Anfadan Ruiscre Abb. et

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Fuinecta.
Fetlugh.

Eoganan mac Aengusa o
Ardleacuig i Maigh Eine

Seacht mcic Aod^a Each-
druma.

xlii. Kal.

20. Feidlimidh.
Daire.
Diarmuit.

xii. Kal.

21. Siolani Eps. Lios moir.
Fulartach mac Brie mic

Scandail.
Flann mac Fuircellaigh.
Molua o Mungairit.
Berr ocus Curenain i Ros.
Secht meic Dretill Innse
uachtair.
Mochua o Caill Innsi ailche.

xi. Kal.

22. Emini Roisglaisi.
Itarnaisc Cloenaidh.

Tua mac h. Roida, idem et
Ultan tighe Tua.

Tua ideo dicitur Tua quia
lapis in labiis ejus per
omne tempus quadragesi-
ns habebat ut non pos-
set loqui et inde Tua die-
tus est.

Forannan Cilli Dea.

z. Kal.

23. Mocua mac Aongusa.
Motemnoc Cluana fertaMo-

lua.

Colman Cluanai da fbiacb
Moeldubh.

Lugnat Presb.

Mernoc.

Mochelloc.

Herneni o Ros ingite.

Anfadan.

Corcnatan, elevatio ejus ad

coelum.
Mogoroc Deirgine.
Mosenoc.

Lucain Cilli dealgraige.
Da Ailitir dec Innse uach-
tair.

Feidlimidh A chad Lurchair.
ix. Kal.

24. Mocua mac Lonain i Cronan
Fiadaili Abb. Cilliachaid.
Senani Eps.
Motemnioc.

▼Hi. Kal.

25. Diucal mac Nemain.
Jarlaithe Eps.
Moelani Eps.
Aedani Maigne.

vii. Kal.

26. Commani in Rois.
Moibea Eanaigh eilte
Cada Droma tuirce.
Mocomoc.

Mogenoc a Cill dumha glu.

inn.
Laisriani Abb.
Eugenii peregrini.

▼1, Kal,

27. Colman mac Daircill.
Tiprati Maighi ratha.
Mopioca mac h. Cormaic.

▼. Kal.

28. Snedairle mac Corbmaic no

Comrisi.

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Xl. CALENDAR OF

Feichini Mac h. Lugbc.
CUleni Mac Bregdae.
Moelcoisne.

Iv. Kal.

29. Mancheni.

Enani S. Glinni faidbble.
Aileran.

Moedoc Lis moir.
Crummini LeacnaMidhe,
Uinii Javii Senis.
Eulaing.

IRISH SAINTS*

iii. Kal.

30. Conla Eps. a Ruscaigb.
Ailbbe Eps. Iraleacha.

31. Columbae Vir. Seacht n*8-

puic impe an Domnach
mor Liphi.
Lochani.

Endei Cilli Manach.
Lugnei Diaconi.
Finis airne.(anni?)

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xli.

At the end of his copy, Father Tinbroeck adds that in the same
MSS. (No. 5104, de la Bibl. de Bourgogne a Bruxelles) there
were other pieces before and after the Martyrology, " II y a dans
le merae, No. 5104, quelques pieces placees avant et apres le
Martyrologe, mais le temps m'a manque pour m'en occuper."
Subjoined is one of those pieces published in the " Book of
Hymns," by Dr. Todd, from his own copy of the Martyrology.
It may be very useful in estimating the character of the saints of
the first three centuries of the Irish Church, as it compares them
with apostles, and popes, and other well-known saints on the
calendar.

Hi sunt sancti qui erant unius moris et vita? ut dicunt

Johannes Baptista
Petrus Apostolus
Paulus Apostolus .
Andreas A.
Jacobus A. . •
Johannes A.
Pilipus A.
Bartolemeus A. .
Tom as A.
Matheus A.
Jacobus A.
Simon
Tatheus
Mathias
Maria

Martinus .
Antonius Monachus
Augustinus sapiens
Ambrocius Imnodicus
Job patiens .
Jeronimus sapiens .
Clemens Papa .
Grigorius moralium
Laurtius diaconus
Beda sapiens .
Ilarius episcopus et sapiens
Cornelius Papa

. Episcopus Ibair.

Patricius.
. Finnan cluana hiraird.

Columcille.
. Finnian Muighe bile.

Ciaran Cluana.
. Cainneac.

Brendinus senior.
. Brenainn Cluana ferta,

Colum Tire da glas.
. Comgall Bennchair.

Molaisi Daimh-insi.
, Sinchellus junior.

Ruadhan Lothra.
. Brigita.

Caemghin Glinni da lacba.
. Feichin Fob hair.

Lonngaradh.
• Mac Indeciss.

Munna Mac Tulcain.
. Manchan Leith.

Ciaran Saighra.
. Cummini Fota.

Decoin Nesain.
. Buite Mac Bronaigh.

Sechnall episcopus.
. Maedog Ferna.

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CALENDAR OF IRISH SAINTS.

Silvester Papa . • • Adamnan episcopua.

Bonifacius P Molaisi Lethglinne.

Paucomius monachus . • Caimin Innsi cealtra.
Benedictus caput monachorum Fintan Cluana eidneach caput

Europse monachorum totius Hibernis

Augustinus Episcopal Anglo- Bairre episcopus Mumhain agus

rum. Connaclit.

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CATALOGUE OF IRISH SAINTS,

FROM THB

MARTY ROLOGY OP TALLAGHT.

A.

Mar. 16. Abban Mac h. Cormaic.
Oct. 27. Abban Mac h. Cormaic.
Aug. 24. Abbani.
Apr. 22. Abel Mac Aedha.
Jan. 23. Acobrani.
Sep. 23. Adomnani, Abb. Iae —
(Iona).

Mar. 11. Aenghus h-ua Aibhlein,

Eps. (TaUaght.)
May 10. Aedho.
July 8. Aedh.
June 27. Aedha.
Oct. 6. Aedh.

Feb. 17. Aedha, tri-in-Athtruim,

(Trim, Meath.)
Jan. 1. Aedh,LochaGerg(Lough

Derg.)
Jan. 25. Aedha, Eps.
Jan. 30. Aedh, Eps. Ferna(Ferns.)
Fab. 7. Aedh, Eps. Sleibhte —

(Sletty, or Slath, near

Carlow.)
Feb. 16. Aedh Glass.
Feb. 28. Aedha Mic Bricc.
May 4. Aedha Mic Bricc.
July 30. Aodh Mac Bricc, i Sliabh

Liacc, (in Donegal.)
May 24. Aedhbi Abb, Tiridaglass

(Terryglass, in Upper

Ormond, Tipperary.)
J uly 10. Aodh Deochain,i c Crich

Maine.
Aug. 31. Aedh Mart.

Aug. 31. Aedh Mac Maine.

Sep. 22. Aedh Mac Senaigh.

Oct. 29. Aedh Glass.

May 3. AedanL

Oct. 12. Aedaoi.

Jan. 1. AedhanhnaFiachna.

Jan. 4. Aedini Eps.

Mar. 20. Aedban, Cluana Mellain.

Mar. 29. Aedan, Doire Bruchais

( Killyman in Armagh.)
Apr. 17. Aedani Mic Garbain.
May 2. Aedani Mic Cuamsea.
June 17. AedhanNigri.
July 19. Aedhan Abb. Lismoir

(Waterford.)
Aug. 3. Aedhan, Cluanadartui

Aug. 31. Aedhan, Eps. Innse Med-
coit (Lindisfarne, Eng-
land).

Oct. 9. Aedan MachuiCuind.
Oct. 20. Aedhani Sci.
Dec. 25. AedaniMaighne(Moyne)
Feb. 12. AcdhanCluanaDartuidhe
Apr. 11. Aedhani, Eachdroma.
Apr. 1. Aidan Laech, Tamlacht
Bairci.

Apr. 8. Aedani MichuiSuibne.
Aug. 27. Aidani.

Jan. 18. Aedamair Inghen Aedha.
Feb. 12. AedhcaelMacFeradhaigh
May 1. Aedgein, Fobhair (Fore,

Westmeath.)
Dec. 18. Aedgein, Arda Lonain.

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CATALOGUE OF IRISH SAINTS.

J n. 28. Aedhlucc, Ardacasain.
Feb. 26. Aedhluga, S.
Aug:. 14. Aicclig.
Apr. 6. Aidech S.
A pr. 9. Aidech Mac h. Eachdach
J in. 30. Ailhhe Cruimiir.
Sep. 10. Ailbhe ithligh, 1 ^
, Sep. 12. Ailbh Eps.ltuleacha I £
Dec. 30. Ailbhe Eps.Iroleach J W
Aug. 11. Aireran Sapiens, Abb.,

Tamhlachtan, pro

Maileruain.
Dec. 29. Aileran.
Mar. 8. Ailgniad, Eps. Ardbrac-

can, Meath.
May 11. Aelgnei.
Jan. 13. Aililli, Eps. Supplicium.
J:in. 7. Aiiitri, Abb.
Apr. 25. Ailithir, Ciuain Geissc.
Apr. 25. Ailithir, Matoc.
May 12. Ailithir, Muccinse — (in

Gal way Bay, near 13 ur-

ren.)

June 12. Ailithir, Lochuane,

July 31. Ailithir Iarnoc.

S »p. 30. Ailither Eps.

Dec. 23. Ailithir, da dec Innse
Uachtair( Upperlsland
in Lough Sheeling.)

July 1. Ailelia,Eps.CiuanaEmain
(Cloonounon the Shan-
non, Clare.)

June 10. Ainrairech Ailich (Eylagh
in Inishowen.)

Sep. 16. Aireni.

Feb. 8. Aiidoni.

Jan. 15. Airecht,ach,in Inismor.

J. in. 5. Airendan Mac Ogi.

Feb. 10. Airendan Eps., Tamlacbt
(Tallaght, Dublin.)

Oct. 27. AirennaniTighairennain
i- M id h e — (Ty farnhana
in Westmeath. >

Feb. 1. Airenna h. Foduib.

Jan. 1. Airmedach Abb. Craibtn
Lasri (near Clonmac-
noise, King's County.)

June 8. AirmedachCunga(Cong)

Sep. 30. Airmer Craibhdec Brec-
Maigh.

May 3. Aithgein, Boithi.

Sep. 9 Aithgein, Eps., Maighi
Bile (Moville.) *

June 16. Aitheachan, Colphto.

Feb. 2. Aithmet,Clochair(Clog-
her.)

Jan. 11. Alteni.

July 8. Araarma, conjux Regis

Gothorum.
June 9. AmalghaidMacEacdach
Jan. 18. Ana, Cluana Grenaich.
Dee. 23. Anfadan.
Dec. 19. Anfadan, Ab. Ruiscre —

(Roscrea, Tipperary.)
Jan. 11. Anfadan, Eps., Glinni-

dalocha,
Sep. 16. Anfadau.
Sep. 19. Anci.

Aug. 1. Arun,Eps.CluanaCaoin.

June 3. Affine.

Apr. 26. Asaach (Isaac.)

Oct. 27- Augustini, Bendcbair.

Mar. 19. Auxilinus.

Sep. 16. Auxilii.

June 3. Avitren loco Anchoritoe.
B.

Apr. 27. Baain.
Jan. 9. Baitbini.
Jan. 12. BaithiuMacNemain.Abb
Jan. 14. Baetani MicLugei, Eps.
Jan. 29. Baethini.
Feb. 5. Baetain Mic Colmain.
Feb. 19. Baithin Mac Cuatach,
Eps.

June 9. Baithini.

Mar. 1 Baitani Eps. Cluana.

June 18. Baithin Mac Mania u.

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Oct. 6. Baithine.

May 22. Baithitii Mic Finnach.

Oct. 12. Baithini.

Jan. 24. Batani, Metbais Truim.

Jan. 30. Barrinn, Innse Domble

(The Liule Island near

Waterford.)
Sep. 22. Barrnnd.
Sep. 25. Bairrinn, Corcaigbe —

(Cork.)

May 3. Barrnnd, Droma Cula

(in Fercal, King's Co.)
May '21. Ban-finn, Droma Cula

(in Fercal, King's Co.)
July 1. Barrinn.
Aug. 9. Barran, Vir.
May 1. Banbani, Eps.
Jul) 23. Banbnatan.
May 9. Banban Sapientis.
Aug. 11. Banbnatan.
Mar. 1. Banfota.
Apr. 5. Baptibma Patricii venit

ad Hiberniam.
Oct. 5. Baethellaigh.
Oct. 12. Becc.
Aug. 17. Beccani.
Aug. 17. Beccani.
Feb. 26. Beccani, Chind Sale —

(Kinsale, Cork.)
Mar. 17. Beccani Ruiini.
Apr. 26. Beccani, Cluanaird.
May 26. Beccani, Cluanaird.
Feb. 10. Becga Inghen Gabhrain.
Apr. 5. BecgainMacCuIe(Cule)

nomen matris ejus.
Dec. 21. Berr et Cuirnan, Ros.
July 11. Berran.
Mar. 7. Beoaerih, Airdcarna (in

Roscommon.)
Oct. 26. Beoani.
Oct. 2d. Beoani.

Aug. 8. Beoain Mac Nessain, i
Fidh Cullen (Feigh
Cullen in Kildare.)

Feb. 1. Beon, Sac.
Feb. 12. Beologa.
Aug. 22. Beogaes Mac Daghri,
AbbBenchoir( Bangor)
Oct. 25. Beoc.

July 27. Beogani, Abb., Maigh?
Bile (Moville.)

Feb. 15. Berrech Cluana Cairp-
thi (Kilbarry, — near
Termonbarry, — Ros-
common.)

Apr. 10. Berchani, Eago.

Apr. 21. Berach,Abb. Benncboir.

Oct. 12. Berchan Abb., Glaisino-
ende.

May 24. Berchani, Cluana Caoin
June 5. Berchaini.
Aug. 4. Bercan, Cluana Sosta.
July 7. Bicce.

July 29. BitiJnnseCaumscraidh,

(Iniscourcey in Down)
June 28. Bigsigi Vir.
Jan. 18. Blatb Cluana Grenaich.
July 24. Blaitbmac MacFlainn.
Aug. 10. Blaani Eps.,Cinngaradh

in Gallghaedelaibh, —

(Galloway, Scotland.)
Oct. 15. Boithini.
July 4. Bolcan Cill Chule (Kil-

cooley, Tipperary.)
May 16. Boetii alias Bregboesach

Filii Brondii.
Mar. 23. Boetan Monachi.
July 21. Buadge.
May 18. Brani Bice, Chlaonaid

(Clane, in Kildare.)
Feb. 6. Brandubh Lochmunre-

muir (Lough Ramor in

Cavan.)
June 3. Branduib Eps.
June 13. Branduibh, Eps.
Mav 1. Braccan.
Apr. 29. Breccan, Abb. Magh Bile

(Moville.)

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May 7. Brcccan, Ech-Droma.
July 16. Breccan Cathe.
Aug. 9. Breccani.
Oct. 12. Breccani.
Feb. 17. Brelach Mac Ficellaig.
Jan. 9. Brendini.
May 9. Brennan, Bioror (Birr,

King's Co.)
May 16. Brendini, Cluana Fearta

(Clonfert, Gal way.)
Sep. 30. Bresal Dertigh.
May 18. Bresal Dirthaich.
Oct. 16. Bricc. Taicthig.
Jan. 15. BriccFhelioBealachFheli
Jan. 7. Brige.

Feb. 1. Brigitta, Vir. Dormi-
tatio.

Feb. 7. Brigit Inghen Drona.

Mar. 9. Brighit, Inghen Doma
Maigh Liphi (the val-
ley of the Liflfey.)

Mar. 9. Brigit, Mona Milain.

May 21. Brighit, Inghen Dim-
main.

Aug. 13. Brigitta?, Cluana Diai-

lama.
fiJep. 30. Brigitta?.
May 19. Brittan Rath a.
Jan. 1. Brocan Mac Ennae.
Apr. 9. Brocani.
June 5. Brocani, Cluana Mic

Miad.

Apr. 11. Brocani.
July 8. Broccan Scribnid.
Aug. 14. Brocan Mac Lugdach.
Aug. 25. Brocani, Maighin.
Sep. 17. Broccan Roistuirc(at the

foot of Slieve Bloom,

Queen's Co.)
July 9. Brocraid.
Sep. 30. Bronchein Lethet Cor-

caighe.

June 8. BroinEps.Caissil(Kilas-
buigbrone, near Sligo.)

IRISH SAINTS.

Apr. 2. Bronchi Vir.
May 29. Bruinseca Vir.

C.

Dec. 26. Cada, Droma Tuircc.
Feb. 5. Caerae,oRath Moentic.
May 25. Cael Cruimthir, Cilii

Moiri.
Aug. 14. Caemani.
Dec. 17. Cail.

Sep. 24. Cailcon Cluana Airtbir.

Feb. 25. Caimsea Vir.

July 23. Caincomrach, — Innse

Oendaimh.
June 29. Caincomrach, — Chinn-

clair.
Jan. 23. Cainnech.
Jan. 28. Cainech Inghen Cruilh-

necain Mic Laighne i

Fail Fobhair.
Jan. 31. Cainech Pres.
May 15. Cainech, AirecuiL
Jan. 28. Cainer

May 16. Cairnigh, Tuilein (Da*
lane near Kells,Meath)

Sep. 24. Cainnecbaefiliae, i Maigh
Locha.

Oct. 11. Cainigh, Mic Dalaiii
lxxxiv. anno aetatis suae

Mar. 28. Cairnigh, Epi.

Jan. 31. Caiman, Cilli Delga
(Kildalkey, Meath.)

Feb. 9. Cairech Dergain, —
(Cloonburren, Ros-
common.)

Mar. 23. CairlanL

Mar. 24. Cairlan, Eps.

Mar. 6. Cairpre Cruim.

May 3. Carpri Eps, Maigh Bile
(Moville.)

Feb. 23. Cass, — Lethglinni —
(Leighlin.)

Ap. 26. Caiss, Bennchair, It a u-
gor.

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May 22. Caisin, Sen dumac.
Jan. 26. Calb Eps, o Thilaigh

carpat in nienna tin

im h. Meith.
Mar. 20. Caroan Mac Corae.
Mar. 25. Cammini S., Curaman

nomen matris ejus.
May 11. Cuoimghin,Abb.,Glinni-

dalocha.
Jan. 11. Carthinisa Eps.
Mar. 1. Car nan.
Mar. 5. Carthach, Saighir (Seir-

keiran, King's Co.)
Mar. 5. Carthach Mac Aongusa

Droma Ferdaim.
Mar. 26. Carthach Mac Arber-
taighe.

May 14. Carthaighi, Mochutta —

Lisraoir.
May 19. Caradic.
Jane 13. Carilla, Tir Rois.
July 20. Caramnani.
Mar. 7. Caritan, Droma Lara.
Mar. 1. Cassan Mac Nemain.
Mar, 28. Cassani, Iraduaill.
June 4. Cassani,Domnaigh Moir

Petair.

June 19. Cassani, Guana Raitte.

July 1. Cathbadh.

Sep. 16. Cathbadh.

Mar. 20. Cathchan, Ratha Tur-
thaighe.

April 6. Catbubi Eps.

April 8. Cathubi Eps.

April 28. Caurnan, Cluana Each.

Jan. 6. Caurnan Becc.

Mar. 3. Celicrist.

April 8. Cendfaeladh Abb, Ben-
choir.

May 1. Cellani h.Fiachrach.
May 19. Ceir.

June 16. Cethig Eps. S. Patricii.
June 17. Cellani Mic Finain.

July 8. Celian Scottus, Martyr,
cum SS. fratribus
Aedh, et Tadg, et
Amarama conjuge re-
gis Gothorum truncati
a prseposito domus Re-
gies in Ippodromia
Palatii Regis.

July 18. Cellach Mac Dunchada
Regis.

Aug. 9. Cethri Meic Ercain.
Aug. 9. Cethri Meic Dimmain.
Aug. 21. Celbae.
Sep. 24. Cellachan, Cluana Tiprat

(Clontibret, Mon-

aghan.)

Oct. 7. Cellaghi Saxonis Dia-
conus, in Glinnda-
locha.

Oct. 8. Cellan Presbyter.
Oct. 16. Cere filia Duibhrea.
Feb. 8. Cere, Vir.
Sep. 9. Cera, Vir.
Feb. 25. Ciarani Abb.
Jan. 5. Ciar Inghen Duibhrea.
Jan. 5. Ciaran Mac Aedha.
Jan. 9. Ciaran Ruiscumulca.
Feb. 24. Ciaran h Mesai Aird-
fota.

Feb. 25. Ciarani S.

Mar. 5. Ciaran o Saighre (Seir-

keiran, King's Co.)
Mar. 8. Ciarani.
May 7. Ciaran i, Mociarocc.
Apr. 30. Ciaran, Cluana Sosta.
May 19. Ciaran Mac Colgan.
June 14. Ciaran Bealaigh Duin
July 19. Ciaran, Tigh na Gortigh.
Aug. 9. Ciarani.
Sep. 9. Ciaran Mac An t-Sair.
Sep. 23. Ciarani.
Oct. 8. Ciaran.
Feb. 1. Cinnia.
Jan. 3. Ciliiui (Mac h. colla.)

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CATALOGUE OF IKISH SAINTS.

Jan. 8.
Jan. 16.
Mar. 3.

Mar. 12.
Mar. 26.
Apr. 14
Apr. 19.
May 27.

July 3.
Oct. 22.
Oct. 23.
D !C. 28.
Jan.
Jia.
May
June
Oct.
Aug.
Jan. 18.
Oct. 16.
July 30.

17.

29.

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o.

6.
1.

2.

June 29.
June 6.
Feb. 17
Feb 22.

Mar. 14.
Mar. 18.
Apr. 24.

June 3.

June 7.

June 12.

Aug. 14.
Sen. 14.

Cilleni, Abb. Sep.

Cilleni. Oct.

Cilline, Innse Domhle Oct.

(Little Island, near Dec.

Waterford.)

Cilleni, Lilchaich. June
Cilleni Cennanani.

Cillini MacLubnain. June

Cilleni S. July

Cillin Eps., Tigb Talain Sep.

(Tehallan, in Mon- Oct.

aghan.) Apr.

Cilline, Ab. Iae (Iona.) Oct.

Cillini S. Apr.

Cilliani Mac Toidnain. Apr.

Cilline Mac Bregdse. July

Ciarinech Druit;>bidc. Oct.

Clarenigb, na tri. Feb.

Ciotbaighi S. Jan

Clarainecb,CluanaCaoin Feb.

Cloth raine Innse Duine. Feb.

CobranCluanaCuanlacb. Feb.

Cobba Inghen Baetani. Mar.

Coibsenaigh Epis. Apr.

Cobarchair Gulbain Apr.

Guirt Mac h. Gairb. May

Cocae Ruisbenchoir. May

Cocca3. July

Coelochtra in Athtruira Sep.

Coeman Maighimenno- Sep.

tae. Oct.

Coemani. Oct.

Coemani Eps. 0*t.
Coemnat Cuili Cich- ■ Oct.

maige. | Dec.

Coeragin Abb. Glinni- Feb.

dalocha.

Coemani Airdni Coemh- Oct.

an. Oct.
Coemani Airdni-i Santle.

tan. July

Coemani. Mar.
Coeman Brecc ic Rros-

sech.

16. Coeman.
16. Coemani S.

16. Coemgeni.

18. Coeman Ruia Cruithnc*

chain.

19. Coelainn Daire Choe-

lainne.
30. Coelan Dacboe.
29. Coelani Innse Celtra.
25. Coelan.

29. Coelani TighenaManach
4. Coini Cilli Coine.

24. Coeti.

18. Cogitosi Sapientis.

24. Coip Inghen Carnain.

25. Colani.
23. Colcari.

20. Colgu Mac h.Dunchadu.

13. Colman.

17. Colmani.

18. Colman.

23. Colmani.

30. Colmani.
9. Colmani.

14. Colmani.
2. Colmani.

24. Colman,
22. Colmani.

16. Colmani.

25. Colman S.
I* Colman.
4. Colmani.

6. Colmani.

7. Colmani S.
18. Col main.

21. Colman, Airdibo (in Ty-

rone, near L. Neagh.)

17. Colman, Abb.

18. Colman Abb-i-MacCort-

gid.

12. Colman, Bruiccissi.

31. Colman, Cam Achaidh

(Commagh, probably
Barony of Athlone.)

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MARTVROLOGY

Jan. 13. Coltnan Cirr.

Oct. 19. Colmani Bain.

July 3. Colmau-i-Guaire, i Cill
Aird in h. Ercain.

Oct. 16. Colmani, Cille Ruaidh
(Kilroot on Belfast L.)

Mar # 9. Colmani,CluanaTibrinni
(Cloontivrin in Fer-
managh.)

Mar. 13. Colmani,CluanaTibrinni
(Cloontivrin in Fer-
managh,) Benedic.

June 4. Col man Cruunthir.

Dec. 23. Col man Cluana Da
Fhiach.

Sep. 25. Colmani, Comraire(Con-
ry in Westmeath.)

May 21. Coiman Cron.

Aug. 18. Coiman, Cule.

May 20. Coiman, Daire Moir
(Derrymore, in King's
County.)

Oct. 20. Coiman, Droma Greine.

Feb. 7. Colmani Eps.

Feb. 7. Coiman Eps.

May 18. Colmain Eps.

June 6. Coimani Eps.

July 30. Coiman Eps.

Sep. 11. Coiman Eps, Ailbi —
(Clonalvey, Meath.)

Sep. 12. Coiman Eps, Abhlae.

Oct. 5. Colmani Eps.

Aug. 8. ColmanEps.Innsibofinni
(Innisbofin, on Gal-
way Coast.)

Oct. 3. Coiman Ela, Noth (?)

Apr. 4. Coiman Find.

July 28. Coiman, Gabhla Liuin
(Galloon, in Ferma-
nagh.)

May 1. Colraan-i-Gaibnerii.
Juiy 25. Coiman h. Fiachiacli.
Mar. 5. Coiman lfirn ?
Feb. 2. Colmani.

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Oct. 27. Coiman h. FiachrachSen-
botha folu (Sbanbo, at
the foot of Mount
Leinster, Wexford.)

July 8. Coiman Imramha.

Sep. 26. Coiman, Laini Ela (Ly-
nally, King's Co.)

Mar. 30. Coiman, Linniduachuill
i.e. Casan Line (Magh-
eraglin on the Logan
river.)

May 6. Coiman, Locha Ethin.
Feb. 6. Coiman, Locha Munre-

muir (L. Ramor in Ca-

van.)

May 21. Coiman Lobair, Maigh

Eo (Mayo.)
July 14. Coiman MacArdgein.
Aug. 9. Coiman Mac Baithin

Druim Rathe.
July 11. Coiman Mac Cron an.
June 15. Coiman MacCorardain

Imlech Brenn. (?)
Sep. 22. Coiman Mac Cathbadh

Midisil.
Feb. 3. Coiman Mac Duach.
Oct. 1. ColmanMacDuachfrater

Cassain.

July 31. Coiman Mac Darane
Daire Mor (Derrymore
King's Co.)

Dec. 27. Coiman Mac Daircill.

Oct. 24. Colmani Mac Fuidiccain

Oct. 15. Colmani Mic Leuin Na-
tivitas.

May 15. Coiman Mac h. Laiglisi.
June 14. Coiman Mac Luaciiaiu.
June 17. Colmani Mac Luachain.
Feb. 8. ColmanMach.Thelluibh.
June 18. Coiman MacMicii.
Jan. 5. Coiman Mac Eacdach.
June 16. Coiman Mac Ro, Abb.,

Reachraind,
Feb. 18. Coiman.

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CATALOGUE OF IRISH SAINTS*

Jan. 1. Colman Muilinn.

Sep. 6. Colman, o Rossnoaaaire, i

Colum Midisil.
Sep. 26. Colman, Ruia Branduib.
Oct. 7. Colman S.
Oct. 20. Colman S.
Oct. 23. Colman S.
May 26. Colman Stellain, Tirda-

ghlass — (Terryghlass,

Tipperary.)
Feb. 4. Colman, — Tamlachta

Gliadh (near Glenry,

Newry river, Down.)
June 26. Colman, Partraighi —

(Partry, Galway.)
July 22. Colum.
May 11. Colum Cain.
June 9. Colum Cille.
Aug. 31. Colum Cuile.
June 7. Colum Gobbae.
Mar. 25. Colum Inghen, Buiti.
Sep. 14. Colum i Cremthanaibb.
May 15. Colum Mac Faolgasa.
May 15. Colum, Innsi Locba Cre

(Monahincba near

Roscrea.)
June 4. Colum Sac, Cluana

Emain (Cloonoun in

Clare.)

Oct. 14. Colum, Innae Cain.
Sep. 6. Colum, Midisil.
Oct. 16. Columbae S.
Jan. 22. Columbae filiae Cora-
ghaill.

June 7. Columbae Mon.
Aug. 1. Columba, Eps. Mac
Riagail.

Mar. 1. Columbae, Cinngaradh.
Sep. 29. Columbae S.
Dec. 31. Columbae Vir.
Sep. 27. Columbani Elevatio.
Feb. 27. Comghani Glinni Ussin.
Tan. 28. Comman.
Feb. 14. Coramani.

Feb. 27. Comman mac b.Themini.
Sep. 30. Commsid Sacart Dom-

naig Aire S.
Apr. 3. Comman Mac Doman-

gin.

May 15. Comman MacDimms.
May 23. Comman. „
July 1. Commai Eps.
July 15. Comman Mac Dimmai,

Mic Ercain, o Bruigh

Long.

July 29* Comman Mac Findbar.
Sep. 4. Coman,Abb.,Dromaane-

acbta.
Oct. 21. Comain.
Oct. 31. Comiani Abb. et aliorum

lxviii.

Dec. 26. Commani, Rois.
Aug. 2. Comgan Cele De.
May 10. Comgball, Ben neb air.
July 7. Comgell Inghen Diar-
mata.

July 24. Corogall Mac Tade, o

Cluain Diarmait.
Aug. 26. Comgall h. Sarain.
Sep. 4. Comgall, Boitbi Conais

(in Innishowen.)
Sep. 19. Comgell Vir.
Sep. 29. Comgilli Militia Chriatu
Oct. 7. Comgilla Abb.
Oct. 26. Comgell, filia Mic Ieir,

Cilli Maignend (Kil-

mainhara.)
May 27. Commaigh Inghen Each-

dach.

Jan. 1. Com n at an Vir.
Sep. 23. Comnatan.
Oct. 25. Conac.
Oct. 8. Conamla.
Mar. 8. Conamla.
May 3. Concraid.
Feb. 12. Conin
Feb. 17. Conan.
Mar. 3. Conna Vir.

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Oct. 26. Cad.

Jan. 6. Cerclach.

Mar. 8. Conanla, Easa Ruaidh

(Assaroeon the Erne.)
Apr. 12. Conathi, Abb., Daire la

Ulta.

Apr. 26. Conani.

June 29, Connan Ep8. o, Tigb

Collain — (Stackailen,

Meath).
Oct. 28. Conan.
Feb. 17. Conaill.
Mar. 3. Conail S.
Mar. 18. Conaill Eps.
Mar. 28. Conaill Eps.
April 2. Conall Mac Aedha.
May 3. Conlai, Cillidara Eps—

(Kildare.)
May 10. Connla Eps.
May 22. Conaill, Innse Cail.
Sep. 9. Conall Mac Aenghusa

an t-eigeas.
Dec. 30. Conla Eps., Ruscaigh.
Oct. 17. Conlid.
Mar. 13. Conchend.
Mar. 17. Conchend.
Mar. 3. Concrada.
Mar. 2. Conuill Cuanchaoin.
April 4. Coini Cilli Coine.
April 28. Conchend Cilli Achaidh.
April 29. Coningen Cuach, tVt . i

Cill Finn Maighi.
July 9. Condmac, Atha Silain.
Aug. 20. Conchan o Caelcbadh.
Sep. 11. ConambaiL
May 10. Conmach.
Sep. 23. Connich Mac Luaichain.
Sep. 30. Con nee S.
Mar. 11. Constantini Brito, mac

Fergusa do Cruithne-

chaib.

Aug. 2. Copran, Cluana Cuan-
lach.

July 17. Corbnatie.

July 19. Corbran, Cluana.
Jan. 7. Corpre.
June 8. Cormac h. Liathain.
Feb. 17. Corbmac Eps. in, Ath-

truim (Trim.)
May 11. Corbmac in Achadh

Finnmaigh (Finmoy in

Iveagh, Down.)
June 24. Corbmac Sencometa.
June 21. Corbmac h. Liathain

Dermaigh — (Durrow,

King's County.)
Oct. 15. Cormani.
Jan. 7. Cormac Eps.
Jan. 7. Corcani.
Feb. 4. Core o Druin.
Feb. 4. Cota o Druinn.
Feb. 26. Cornani S., Glinni Esa.
July 24. CorodnL
Dec. 23. Corcnatan, Elevatio ejus

ad coelum.
July 17. Corpnatse, V.
May 17. Critan Eps.
Feb. 7. Crcatan Mac Daire.
May 11. Critan Mac Uladhon,

vel Mocritoc.
May 23. Cremthand Maighi Du-

mae.
July 25. Crestain.
Sep. 30. Creber.
Oct. 16. Critaini S.
Oct. 16. Croibsenaigb Eps.
Jan. 1. Crone Gal ma.
Jan. 27. Croni,InnseLochaCroni.
Feb. 9. Crona Mac Nathscroan.
Feb. 25. Crone, Tamlachta (Tal-

laght.)
July 7. Crona?.
Oct. 15. Cronae Vir.
Oct. 19. Cronan, Droma Inghin.
Jan. 7. Cronan Eps.
Jan. 20. Cronani.
Jan. 29. Cronani.
Jan. 30. Cronani Sacerdotis.

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CATALOGUE OF IKISH SAINTS.

Fob. 12. Cronani.

Feb. 10. Cronan fii. Mellain in

Deisse et Lismor—

(Waterford.)
Feb. 20. Cronan.
Feb 21. Cronan, Cilli Becci.
Mar. 8. Cronani, Airdni.
Mar. 30. Cronan Balna i Ceara

i Connacht.
Mar. 30. Cronan et Fiachna.
Apr. 26. Cronani.
Apr. 28. Cronan, Ruis Crea (Ros-
crea.)

June 1. Cronani, Lismoir.

June 12. Cronani.

July 18. Cronan Mac h Lugada.

July 24. Cronani.

Aug. 6. Cronan fii. Lugadach et

Mocua Cluana Dolcain

(Clondalkin, Dublin.)
Aug. 7. Cronani, Maighi Bile.
Aug. 30. Cronan,Cluana Andobh-

air (in Kings County.)
Aug. 31. Cronan Diaconi.
Oct. 19. Cronan Cule Lugdidh.
Apr. 6. Cronbice, Abb. Cluana.
Apr. 4. Cronsigi.
July 23. Cronsegi.
Oct. 16. Croibsenaigh, Eps.
Feb. 13. Cruacbnatoc Ros Facht-

na.

Jan. 30. Cruirathir Ailbhe.

Feb. 9. Cruimthir Finani, Dro-
ma Licci.

Dec. 19. Cruimthir FraochoClu-
ain Cullaing.

Feb. 23. Cruimthir Connrach.

Feb. 28. Cruimthir, Domnaig,
cum Firlain h. FaeU
ain — (Dontiycuraper,
near Celbridge. ?)

Apr. 4. Cruimthir Core, Cille
Moire.

May 11. Cruimthir Cortnac.

May 20. Cruimthir Laidcind.
May 25. Cruimthir Cael, Cilli
Moire.

June 4. Cruimthir Colman.
June 9. Cruimthir Mac Nessa.
June 13. Cruimthir Mochua, o

Cluain Tibrat.
Aug. 9. Cruimthir Riaghain.
Sep. 8. Cruimthir Catha, Mac

Aengusa i Cluain Eo-

rainne.

Oct. 1. Cruimthir* Fergnse.
June 22. Crunmael Mac Ronain.
May 20. Cruimthir Ditruib,o I n-

iscroind (Iniscrone, in

Sligo.)

June 28. Crumine Leacan Midhe.
Dec. 29. Cruimine, Leacna Midhe
Mar. 2. Cuanchain.
Apr. 22. Culen,Eps. Leamchaille.
Jan. 12. Cuimmiue MacDuibho

Druim Druith.
Feb. 12. Cumman Glinni Mona.
Feb. 17. Cuimaeni, Eps., in Ath-

truim (Trim.)
Feb. 24. Cu.mini Find Mac Fi-
achna, Mic Feradaigh,

Abb., Iae.
May 19. Cuimmine Mac Bait an.
May 21. Cuimmine Mac Luig-

deach.
June 1. Cummini.
June 14. Cuman Becc, Tarn*

naighe (Rathdowney,

Queen's Co.)
July 29. Cummine Mac Araidhe.
Aug. 10. Cummin Abb., Droma

Bo.

Aug. 14. Cummin.
Aug. 22. Cummine.
Sep. 17. Curamin,Abb.,Damoirne
Dec. 18. Cumini.
Oct. 15. Cuani (Ahascragh, Gat-
way.)

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MARTYROLOGY

Oct. 29. Cuane Sci.

Jan. 8. Cuacae, Vir.

Jan. 13 Cuairni.

Mar. 11. Cuannae ceci.

Feb. 3. Cuanna (i Glinni), Abb.,

Maighi Bile.
Feb. 9. Cuarani Sapientis, i.e.

Crona Mac Nathse-

mand vel Mac Netha.
Feb. 4. Cuanna, Lismoir.
Mar. 8. Curchach, Cluana Lo-

thuir.

Mar. 2. Cuain Chaoin.

Mar. 13. Cuangusa Mic Aililla.

July 10. Cuani h. Airbir in h-
Cendselaigh — (Wex-
ford.)

Mar. 14. Cuimnigh.

Mar. 16. Curitan Abb. et Eps.,
Kuis Mac Barend(ltos-
bercon near Ross ?)

Mar. 20. Cutbrichti Saxo, t.e.
Innse Mcnoc.

Apr. 10. Cuanna, V T ir. Maigh
Locha im bregbaib, i.e.
i Rus Eo.

May 27. Cnintoc Snamh Lu-
thair.

May 29. Cumne, Vir., Inghen
Alleain,in AirdUiladh
(The Ards, Down.)

Feb. 12. Curaan, Glinnimona.

July 6. Cumroan Inghen Maine,
in Airiud Boinne.

July 20. Curifin.

July 21. Curcaire, Cill Curcaire.

Aug. 8. Curcach Cluana Lothuir.

Aug. 9. CurUani i Cill Moir Di-
truibh.

Dec. 21. Cuirenaini Ros.

D.

Jan. 8. Dagaiu, Glinnidalocha,
(Ulendaloch.)

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Jan. 7. DalaTigbi Bretain.
Sep. 13. Dagan Sac-Mac Colma-

da, lnbherdoile (En-

nereilly near Arklow.)
Aug. 18. Daigh Mac Cairrill, Inn-

se Cain.
Jan, 15. Darerca, Vir.
Mar. 22. Darercae.
Mar. 23. Darerca, Vir.
Sep. 9. Darercae S.
Jan. 29. Dalian Mac Forghaill,

Maighin (Mo>ne.)
Feb. 10. Darluga, Vir., o Lem-

naig.

Feb. 17. Dachonna Mac Odrain.

Mar. 12. Dagani, Eps.

Mar. 1. David, Citlimuinc, (St
David's, Wales.)

Dec. 20. Daire.

Feb. 13. Dairii S.

May 29. Dairii.

Aug. 7. Daire Dor.

Aug. 8. Darii Vir.

Oct. 26. Dairinell. filise Mic loir
Cilli Maignend (Kil-
mainham.)

Oct. 26. Dairbellinn,fili82MicIeir
Cilli Maignend— (Kil-
mainham.)

Oct. 5. Dalocha.

Oct. 23. Dalbach.Cuile Collaing.

Feb. 18. Daniel, Eps.

Sep. 11. Daniel, Eps., Bennchoir.

May 20. Dainel Tulcha.

Sep. 30. Daighri o Cluain Achuir.

May 3. Daircholla, Glinnidalo-
cha.

May 9. Da-Breccoc, Tuaroa

Dreman.
Apr. 11. Dadnan Eps., o Cill Cun-

June 9. Dahfinna Mac Declainn.
June 13. Damhnat, Sleibhe liea-
tha (SHeve Beat ha.)

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CATALOGUE OF I WISH SAINTS.

July 3. Dartini Vir., i CM aird

in h. Ercain.
Aug. 18. Daigh Mac CairUl, Innse

Cain.

Apr. 23. Dechte.
Mar. 22. Deghitghi Vir.
Mar. 16. Denach, Innse Detnae.
Jan. 13. Deuraid.
Feb. 1. Derlugach Vir.
Feb. 19. Deg Mac Nemnaill.
Mar. 3. Deocbaip Reat.
Apr. 25. Dechonen Cluana Ara-
thair.

July 6. Dermor Ingben Maine.
July 24. Declan, Aird Moir (Ard-

more, Waterford.)
July 25. Deocbani Nesain.
Jan. 6. DiarmaitMacEacbdach

Airiud.

Jan. 10. Diarmait, Innse Cloth-
rand (Iniscloghran in
Loughrea, Longford.)

Jan. 15. Diarmait Presb.

Jan. 16. Diarmait Mac Mechair.

Apr. 24. Diarmait Eps.

June 21. Diarmait Diseirt.

July 8. Diarmait, Glinni Huisen
(Glanussen, two miles
west of Carlow.)

Sep. 28. Diarmait Mac Lucnaid
i Cluain Fidnaighi.

Oct. 12. Diarmait.

Dec. 20. Diarmait.

Jan. 6. Dimma Dubh.

Jan. 7. Dimma.

Jan. 10. Diman, Innse Cain.

Mar. 9. Dimmae.

Mar. 22. Dimmae.

May 12. Dimma Mac Caiss.

June 27. Dimman.

June 3. Didae Vir.

Jan. 6. Dianach Eps.

Jan. 16. Dianach Eps., Droma

Jan. 14. DiblinL

Feb. 28. DichuileMacMaelduib,

in Airudh Muilt (Loch

Eirne.)

Mar. 15. Diuchaill fiL Nessain.
Apr. 25. Digde Vir.
May 1. Dicholla, Cluana Brain.
May 19. Diuir Enaigb.
June 12. Duichaill, Achaidh na
Cro.

Aug. 14. Dinil Mac an t-sair?
Oct. 6. Diureni.
Oct. 9. Dinertaigh, o Cluain
Moir.

Dec. 25 Diucaill Mac Nembain.

Oct. 1. Doiterahnach, Fedba
Duin (Fiddown, Kil-
kenny.)

Jan. 7. Donani Innse Angin —

(Hare island near

Lough Rea.)
Jan. 13. Dochonnse.
Jan. 31. Docaemi Eps.
Jan. 31. Dochumma, Noendrum

(Antrim.)
Feb. 13. Domhangin.
Apr. 29. Domhangin Thuaim

Muscraidhe.
Mar. 24. Domangbart Mac Ea-

chach Eps.
Apr. 17. Donanus, Innse Eago

cum sociis 1 -quorum

nomina in majore

libro 8cripsimus.
Apr. 29. Donnani Sac.
May 3. Donnani.
July 22. Dobi, Innse Cumsc*

raidhe — (Iniscourcey,

Down.)
July 22. Dobeodoc.
Oct 28. Dorbeni, Abb., Iae
Feb. 5. Dubtach Sac.
Oct. 5. Duibb.

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Feb. 6. Duran Mac Coluim
o Druimchrema.

Sep. 5. Duibhsuile.

Feb. 11. Dubani Sao.

Apr. 15. Dubta.

May 13. Dublitir.

May 15. Dublitir Abb.Finnglaisse
(Finglass.)

May 16. Duthracht, Liatb Droma

May 25. Dunchadh Abb. Iae i.e.
Mac Cinnfaelaidh.

July 18. Dubh Mac Curaairdhe.

Aug. 6. Dusech Loch Cuau —
(Strangford Lougb.)

Oct. 25. Duthracht, LemchaiUe.

June 27. Drochan.

E.

May 5. Eachbricht Saxonis.
Jan. 20. Ecca.

Apr. 24. Echtbrichti Saxonis.
May 27. Echbritan Mac Ossu.
Aug. 6. Echi, Cille Glaissi.
Apr. 21. Edilaldi Saxonis.
May 12. Eirci Maigh Leis.
June 1. Egol, disert fegoilsi.
Apr. 24. Eichneach Mac Conca-
thrach.

Mar. 22. Egressio Families Bren-
dini.

Sep. 5. Elacha.

Sep. 7. Eiair, Locha Cre.

Jan. 7. Emini, Sci.

Dec. 18. Emin.

Dec. 22. Emini, Roisglaissi.

Jan. 30. Enani S., Roismoir.

Enan, Iniseago.
Mar. 1. Enani.
May 2. Enani.
Mar. 25. Enan Mac Muadan.
Mar. 21. EndaAirne(Arran Isles)
Mac Ainmirc Mic Ro-
nain do Cremthanaibh.
Aug. 19. Euan, Droma Ratha.

Sep. 18. Enain, Droma Ratha.
Dec. 29. Enani S., GHnnifaithle.
Dec. 31. EndeiCilliManach(Kii-

managh, Kilkenny.)
Sep. 10. Ennio Mac h. Fiatach.
Jan. 1. Eochaid.
Jan. 28. Eochaid, Bps. Abb.

Tamlachtan.
Apr. 17. Eochaidh Lismoir.
May 22. Eodusa Maigin (Moyne)
Aug. 17. Eoani Mic Carlain S.
Oct. 24. Eoain o Chill Airtir,Eps.
May 31. Eogbain, Eps. et Sapien,

Maigh Cremhcaill.
June 11. Eoghain qui et Mac

Tail.

Aug. 23. Eoghain Eps. Arda Sra-
tha — (Ardstraw, Ty-
rone.)

Oct. 17. Eoghain Lismoir.

Dec. 19. Eoganan Mac Aengusa
Ardleacuigh Maigh
Eine (In Moy a plain
in Donegal near the
Erne.)

Sep. 5. Eolang Achaidh bo
(Aghabo, Queen's Co.)

Sep. 5. Eolog Ancohrita.

Oct. 4. (C) Eolmani ?

Dec. 29. Eulanir.

Jan. 11. Ernini,o CluainDeochra.

Jan. 11. Emini Mac Coemhain.

Jan. 17. Ernind, o Tigh Ultain.

Jan. 1. Ernan Mac Eoghain.

Feb. 23. Ernine, Leithglinne —
(Leighlinn.)

Feb. 28. ErninilngbenAirchinn.

Apr. 12. Ernani Eps. .

Mar. 18. Eiricbrit Saxonis.

May 30. Ernine.

June 28. Ernine, o Cluain find.

Aug. 17. Ernani.

Apr. 10. Eretnatan Vir.

May 12. Ere, Maigh Leis.

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CATALOGUE OF IRISH SAINTS.

Aug. 18. Ernini Mac Cressni,i
Rath nu in h.Gairchon
(Rathnew, Wicklow.)

May 16. Ernani Mac Aodha.

Aug. 6. Erne, Cluana Railgech,

Sep. 27. Erneni h. Briain.

Sep. 17. Erci Eps, Domnaigh
moir Maighi Cobha —
(Donagh Mor in Up-
per Iveagh, Down.)

Oct. 27. ErcEps.Domnaigh Moir
Maighi Luadhat.

Mar. 3. Ereclach.

Feb. 11. Etchani Eps.

June 3. Etchii.

Feb. 26. Ethni.

July 6. Etne Inghen Maine.

July 5. Etain Vir,TuamaNoadh.

Mar. 29. E hne Inghen Baithe.

May 27. Ethirn Eps, Domnach
Mor.

Aug. 11. Etrachtee Vir.
Mar. 15. Eugenii.
Apr. 18. Eugenius Eps.
Dec. 26. Eugenii Peregrini.
Apr. 11. Eachforaidh.

F.

Jan. 19. Fachtna Eps, i Nuach-

ongbail Reidbaircend ?
Mar. 3. Fachtna Craebliaigh.
Aug. 14. Fachtna Mac Mongain

o Ros Ailithir — (Ros-

carberry.)
Feb. 8. Failbhe. '
Mar. 10. Failbe Becc Ab. Iae

(Iona.)
Mar. 22. Failbe Sac.
Mar. 23. Failbi.
Apr. 8. Failbhe Erdaim.
Apr. 16. Failbe.
Apr. 29. Failbhe Innse Eago.
June 19. Failbhe, Thalincht?
June 30. Failbhe, o Cill Eo.

Jan. 21. Fainche, Cluana Caein
in Eoghanacht Caisil
( Clonkeen, Tipperary)

June 29. Failbhe Mac Daire.

July 11. Falbi.

July 18. Failbe Mac Cruaich Di-
bic.

July 20. Failbe.

Aug. 1. Failbe Mac Lussen.

Sep. 4. Failbe Mac Ronain o

Cluain Airbelaig.
Mar. 17. Failtigern Vir.
Mar. 22. Familiae Brenuini

^Egressio.
Mar. 31. Faolan fili Aedha.
Apr. 30. Farailia Eago,ut quidam

dicunt.

May 5. Faolan find,CilliColmain

June 6. Foelani.

Sep. 30. Faelan, Rathi Aidne.

Sep. 30. Failani.

Oct. 19. Failani S.

Oct. 31. Faolani Martyris Fratris

Fursu.
Apr. 30. Faelchon Eps.
May 23. Faelchon.
July 20. Faelchon.
Sep. 24. Failchon, Findglaisse —

(Finglass, Dublin.)
June 4. Faithlenn Mac Aedha,

Damhain?
Sep. 5. Faithlenn Deochoin.
Jan. 18. Feamraair.
Feb. 5. Febhla.
Jan. 2. Fechin, Fobhair (Fore,

Westmeath.)
Feb. 19. Fechine Mac h. Caichi,

Lemmaigh.
Aug. 2. Fechine Sac.
Feb. 22. Feicin Sac.
Dec. 28. Feichini Mac h-Lugbe.
Dec. 20. Feidlimidh.
Aug. 9. Feidilmethe i Cill Mor

Dithruib.

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Dec 23. Feidlimidh — Achadih
Lurcair (Aghalurchar
in Fermanagh.)

Aug. 3. Fethiliraidh, o Cill Moir.

Aug. 28. Feidilmidh Mac Crim-
thainn.

Jan, 11. Feidelraai, Vir.

Mar. 16. Fetmac,Eps.oCillCuanda

Apr. 16. Felicia Diaconi.

July 30. Febrithae.

June 29. Faeldobor.

July 6. Fedchonn niad.

July 23. Fethcon, Eps.

Dec. 19. Fetlug.

June 10. Ferdommaigh.

Jan. 31. Fethaid.

Feb. 12. Fethgnai S.

Mar. 2. Fergna, Abb., Iae.

Sep. 18. Fergnae, Presbyter.

Jan. 20. Fergbus.

Feb. 15. Fergusa Mac Aengusa.

Mar. 23. Fergusa.

Mar. 24. Fergusa.

Mar. 30. Fergusa Eps.

Apr. 27. Fergusa.

May 3. Fergusa.

July 5. Fergusa o Huaraaigh.

July 19. Fergusa Sci.

July 24. Fergusa.

Sep. 8. Fergus Cruithnech.

Sep. 10. Fergus Mac Guaire.

Sep. 19. Fergus Cruithnech.

Feb. 8. Fiachra, Abb., Iraird.

July 25. Fiachrach.

July 25. Fiachra Coel, CInana
Cain.

Sep. 28. Fiachrach, Eps.

Oct. 12. Fiachra in Sleibhte
filius Fiach.

Oct. 12. Fiac, in Sleibhte (Slet-
ty or Slath, near Car-
low.)

Mar. 30. Fiach nae.

Apr. 29. Fiachnae.

Oct. 1. Fidhairle h. Suanaigb.
July 7. Fiadabar, Uachtair A-
chaidb.

May 16. Fidhmune i.e. h. Suan-
aigh.

Jan. 4. Ftdnatan Vir.

Feb. 17. Fidcellaig?

Dec. 24. Fiadaili, Abb.,Cilli Ach-

aidh (Killeigh, King's

Co.)

Jan. 22. Filiae Comghaill, Lasre,

Columba, Boga.
Mar. 15. Filii tres Nessain, Mon-

isu, Nesloga,Diuchaill

trenachderg.
Apr. 26. Filiae Cuani.
June 23. Filiae Moinani,
Sep. 24. Filiae Cainnich i Magh

Locha.

Jan. 15. Filiarum Carpre Dormi-
tatio.

Aug. 15. Filiae Cairpre.

Oct. 26. Filiarum Mic Ieir iv. i
Cill Maignend (Kil-
mainham), t. e. Dairi-
nell, Darbellinn, Cael,
et ComgelL

Jan. 8. Finan, Eps.

Jan. 9. Finani SaxonU.

Fob. 11. Finani, Eps., Maighi
Bile, vel Cluana Iraird,
Moville or Clonard.

Feb. 12. Finani Mic Airennain.

Feb. 13. Finani, Sc.

Mar. 2. Finniani.

Mar. 16. Finan (Lobhar), Suiid
(Swords.)

Oct. 4. Finani.

May 17. Finnen.

Sep. 27. Finniani.

Sep. 27. Finnanie Mic Coppam.

Apr. 7. Finan Cam. obliquitas
fuit in oculis ejus.

Jan. 27. Finnbeo Inbir Melge.

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Jan. 2. Finnche Locha IU.
Jan. 15. Findcridan Craibhigi.
Jan. 25. Finnche, Vir., Siiabh

Guaire (Slieve Gory,

Cavan.)
Feb. 5. Fingin mie Odhrain.
Feb. 23. Findchadan na h-Arda

(The Ards, in Down.)
Mar. 11. Findchain.
Apr. 24. Finceille, Vir.
May 11 Findloga.
May 16. Finnchad, Eps.
May 17. Finnchani, Droma B-

naigh.

Oct. 24. Findgani Mac Airchin-
nigb o Dhiamair.

Oct. 29. Findcani.

May 21. Finnbairi Corcaighi —
(Cork.)

July 4. Findbarr, Abb., Innse
Domle (Little Island,
near Waterford.)

July 25. Findbairr, Sac.

Sep. 9. Findbarr,CilleCunget\e.
Broednea.

Sep. 10. Findbarr Mac Findi.

June 4. Finnchani.

June 5. Finnloga, Cillgobail.

Jan. 3. Finnlug, Dunbleisc.

Feb. 2. Finnchi Duirin.

Feb. 17. Finnseghi, Vir., in Ath-
truira (Trim.)

Jan. 1 . Finntan Mac Tuichtech .

Jan. 1. Finntan Mac Eachach o
Bealuch.

Feb. 7. Finntan Sac. Cluana
Caoin.

Feb. 17. Finntan, Cluana Eidne-
ach Ab., (Clonenagh,
near Mountrath, —
Queen's Co.)

Feb. 21. Finntani Coraighi Ille-
amchoillvel Cluaineid-
neach

Mar. 27. Finntan Os Psalmorum.

May 10. Finntani.

Mar. 26. Finntan, Achaidh Garb-

hain (near Dungarvao,

Waterford.)
May 11. Finntani, oCluain Cain.
May 16. Finntani, o Cluain

Cruaich.
Sep. 8. Finntani, Airdcain.
Sep. 19. Fintani Abb.
Oct. 1. Fin tan.
Oct. 9. Finntan Abb
Oct. 10. Finntan, Droma Inghen
Oct. 20. Fintani.
Oct. 21. Finntan Mac Tulchain :

Munna cum sociis

Lasrian, Comian.
Aug. 15. Firdacrich.
Aug. 30. Firdacrich.
May 18. Firdacrich.
May 31. Firdacrich.
Mar. 30. Firdacrich.
Sep. 9. Firdacrich.
Oct. 6. Firdacrich o Daire

Eidneach (Derrynav-

lan, Slieve Ardagh,

Tipperary.)
Mar. 10. Firfuighill Eps.
Jan. 14. Flann finn i Cuillinn, i

Fail Corcaighe.
Jan. 21. Flann Mac Lughdach

Abb, Finglaisse (Fin*

glass.)

Mar. .14. Flan nan, o Cill Aird.
June 20. Flann.
Apr. 20. Flann.
July 17. Flainni, Inbir Becce.
Dec. 18. Flann Mac Toirdeal-
baigh.

Dec 21. Flann Mac Fuircellaigh.
June 23. Foelaine.
Jan. 16. Foelan.

Jan. 9. Foelan, Cluana Moescna
Jan. 12. Foelani Eps.

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Mar. 3. Foilend.
June 20. Foaelani amlabair Sraith
Aug. 24. Faelan.

Aug. 26. Faelan Cluana Moecsna.
Oct. 12. Foelani.
Sep. 18. Foendalach.
Sep. 19. Foendalach.
June 2. Foim?

June 31. Follomon Mac Nat-
fraicb.

Oct. 29. Fonere Domnaigh ?

Dec. 22. Forannani, Cilii Dea.

Feb. 16. Foranuan Mac Aedha.

June 10. Forchellach, Fobhair —
(Fore, Westmeath.)

Oct. 5. Forirthich.

Feb. 18. Fortchern, in Athtruim

(Trim.)
Aug. 17. Fortheto.
Apr. 11. Frosaisaigh Anchorita.
Feb. 4. Fuidbech Mac Illadon.
July 6. Fuidbec.
Dec. 19. Fuinecta.
Mar. 29 Fulartach Mac Bricc.
Dec. 21. Fulartach Mac Bricc

Mic Scandail.
July 32. Fullenn, Atha Iunic.
Mar. 6. Forbidhi.
May 28. Furodan hillan tuirriu?
June 18. Furodrin Mac
Apr. 27. Furudrain.
July 26. Furodrani, Eps.
July 28. Furodrani S.
Jan. 16. Fursae Dormitatio.

G.

June 24. Gabrini.
May 1. Gaibnedi Colman?
July 11. Gabtinaj, Vir.
Apr. 4. Gall, Locha Techet—
(Lough Garain Sligo.)
Oct. 15. Galmse.
Jan. 1. Galma.

Mar. 12. Garailt, Maigh Eo cum

suis.

Aug. 24.

May 14 Garbani.
J uly 9. Garban Sac, Cindsaile—

(Kinsale.)
Sep. 18. Gemae Vir.
J uly 30. German Mac Guill.
Sep. 6. Giallani.
Sep. 17. Giallani Eps., Laind.
Sep. 18. Giailani, Lainiu.
Oct. 2. Giallain.
Jan. 29. Gildas, Eps. et Sapiens.
June 3. Glunshalaich.
Mar. 17. Gobban Mac Nasair.
Mar. 26. Goban Abb., Airdni
Dairiudsi (near Beg-
gery, Wexford.)
Mar. 30. Gobani.
Apr. 1. Gobbani, S.
May 23. Gobani Mairgi, Ti?h
Scuithin — (Tescoffia
near Kilkenny.)
May 30. Goban, Airdni Dair-
insi (near Beggery,
Wexford.)
July 16. Gobbani.
Feb. 11. Gobnat Ernaidhe in
Muscraighe Mitine—
(Kilgobnet in Mus-
kerry.)

Apr. 15. Grellan Mac Kodain.
Jan. 9. Guaire Bic.
Jan. 22. Guaire.

Jan. 25. Guaire Eps in Gobail.
June 22. Guaire Becc.
Feb. 22. Guirminni Inghen Con-
ghaili.

Jan. 24. Guasacht Eps, Gran-
arith (Granard, Long,
ford.)

H.

Feb. 5. Hectach, Vir.

Jan. 17. Hernenidh tigh UUain.

May 12. Herneni.

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CATALOGUE OF IRISH SAINTS.

Dec. 23. Hernem Ros in Gite.
Oct. 2. Here Eps. ? oinme, *. e.

(siraul) Giallain.
July 16. Hilarmi.
Feb. 17. Hostiarius Patricii.
Jan. 30. Huarani.
Feb. 8. Hua ind Egis qui con-

gregavit reliquias

sanctorum.
Feb. 18. Huidhrian,DruimDres*

L

Dec. 25. Iarlaithe Eps.

Feb. 11. Iarlaithi.

Jan. 16. Iarloga.

Jan. 16. Iarloga, Lismoir.

July 31. Iarnoc Ailithir, Uag-

inse Corp.
Apr. 23. Ibar Eps.
Feb. 2. Illhadon on Disart.
June 10. IlladhonMacEuchdachi

Raith Liphiten.
Oct. 30. llland?
Sep. 25. Irachad.
Aug. 11. Indectae Vir.
Apr. 16. Inghen h Diarmata i.

Connacbta.
Jan. 2. Ingbena Baithe, Maigh

Liphe (Liffey Valley.)
Mar. 29. Ingbena Baithe quae

nutriebant Christum,

Ethne et Sodelbhia

nomina earum.
Apr. 25. Inghena Cuanain.
Jan. 21. Inghena Feradhaig.
Mar. 23. Inghena Feradhaig.
Mar. 6. Inghena Lenini.
Feb. 23. Inghena Aengusa.
May 3. Inghena Osseni.
May 17. Inghena Garbhain.
June 11. Inghena Laisrean Cilli

Chule (Kilcooley Tip-

perarypj

j June 25. Inghena Ninguir.
July 2. Inghena Cathbadh in,
Airiud.

May 24. Inghena (Seacht) Fer-
gusa.in Inis Cealtra —
(Iniscealtra in Lough
Derg, Shannon.)

July 6. Inghena (tri) Erni oc,
Enach Dirmaigi.

July 6. Inghena (tri) Maine in,
Airiud Boinne.

Aug. 11. Inghena Dudu.

Aug. 11. Inghena Senaich.

Aug. 11. Inghena Dondain.

Sep. 14. Inghena Coluim, i,
Caille folloman (Moy-
goish in Westraeath.)

Jan. 6. Inghen Natfraoich in,
Eanach Ard (Annagh,
probably iu Leitrim.)

Jan. 7. Inghen Fergna.

May 27. Inghen Eachdach.

Aug. 9. Inghen Aillella.

Oct. 20. Inghell, Maighe Eo.—
(Mayo.)

Apr. 26. Isaac ?

Jan. 15. Ita, Vir.

Jan. 14. Ith&naisc, in Achadh
fearta.

Dec. 22. Itbarnaisc, Cloenaidh.
J.

Jan. 5. Joseph Eps Tamlackt.
Sep. 28. Junilli Infirmi.
July 29. Justan Manach.

L.

Apr. 22. Lachaui Armaighi.
1 Feb. 17. LacteaniSac,inAthtruim

(Trim.)

Feb. 17* Lactani Eps. in Atblru-

im (Trim.)
Mar. 19. Lachtani Achadh Uir—

(Freshford, Kilkenny.)

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•Tune 26. Lachtan.

Aug. 1. Lachteni.

Jan. 12. Laidchen Mac Baith-

banaigh.
Oct. 23. Laidchend.
Jan. 12. Laigne Mac Garbhain.
Jan. 28. Laighne, i Fail Fobhair.
May 11. Laeghairi lobair.
May 9. Lamruaid.
Feb. 11. Lappani Mic Ciarain.
Mar. 26. Lappan.
May 14. Laisre.
Jan. 22. Lasra fil. Comgbaill.
Feb. 18. Lasra Vir., in Glinn

Medhoin (Glinmaco-

nagh, Lower Glenarm,

Down.)

Mar. 23. Lassair Inghen Fintain.
Apr. 19. Lasre Vir, Cluana Mind.
Apr. 18. Lasar, inghen Eccain o,

Maigin (Moyne).
May 7. Lasre Vir.
May 11. Lasre Vir.
July 23. Lasre.
July 27. Lasrain, Tiprait oss.
Aug. 20« Laaair, o Cill Arialgach.
Sep. 15. Lasair, Cluana Moir.
Sep. 16. Lasriani.
Sep. 30. Lassar Inghen Lochain.
Oct. 25. Lasriani fil Nasci.
Oct. 25. Lasriu Mac Coluira.
Dec. 26. Laisriani, Abb.
Oct. 29. Lauran, o Daire Lauran

(Derryloran, Tyrone.)
Mar. 16. Laudani.
June 6. Lonani, Cillgobail.
Mar. 29. Lerra Vir. Algasach.
Aug. 9. Leabani.
Feb. 5. Liadnan Ab. Fobhair—

(Fore, Westmeath.)
Dec. 18. Libani.
Mar. 29. Liaic ?

Aug. 1 . Liber Mac Lussen, Innse
Moir.

June 1. Liban, Atha Egais.

Mar. 30. Liber, Lethdutnmi.

Mar. 8. Liberi. S.

Mar. 8. Libreini S.

Mar. 11. Librani, Cluana fota —

(Clonfad, Fertullagh)

Westmeath.)
Mar. 11. Liobrani.
July 28. Linican Uisseoit.
Jan. 16. Lithgein o Cluain Mor

in h. Failge.
Aug. 30. Loarn Sac. Achaidh Moir

(Achamer, in Lower

Coatelloe, Mayo.)
Jan. 2. Lochait Ab. Magh Bile

(Moville.)
Apr. 17. Lochini Cunga (Cong.)
June 12. Locheni.
Dec 31. Lochani.
Jan. 12. Loicheni.
Jan. 20. Loichen fil Dutb di ligid.
Oct. 1 1 . Loman in, Athtruim cum

S.S. omnibus.
Feb. 4. Loraman, Tamlachtn

Gluind (NearGlenry,

Down.)

Feb. 7. Loraman, Locba Uair —
(Lough Ouel, West-
meath.)

Jan. 9. Lomchon Sci.

Feb. 7. Lonan Mac Daire.

June 6. Lonani.

July 11. Lonan, Aird Cruinn.

Aug. 2. Lonan Mac Laisre.

Oct 24. Lonani Cluana Tibrinni.

Jan. 22. Lonan Fann (Fionn.)

June 24. Lon Cilli Gabhra.

Jan. 27. Luacan Sacart.

June 8. Luatraind, Achadh Co-
raind.

Jan. 23. Lucas.

Feb. 23. Lucain Tarahnaighe.

Oct. 2. Luadrain Abb.

Sep. 10. LucUl.

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Mar. 21. Lucill Mac h. Ciara.
Dec. 23. Lucbair,CilliDel graighe
Feb. 11. Luchta Atha Ferna.
Jan. 3 1. Lug tire da Craebh i Mac

Eachach.
Aug. 16. Lugain S.
Feb. 12. Lugaidh o Col ruscaigb.
Mar. 2. Lugadh Sac.
July 24. Lugbei Droma Bo.
Mar. 24. Lughaidh Mac Each.

dech o Cluain Laig.
Apr. 17. Lughaidh MacDruchta.
Apr. 17. Lughaidh Mac Garb-

hain.

Apr. 24. Lugaidh Sac
May 12. Lugaeth Mac Oengusa.
July 1. Lugidh Mac Luge.
July 22. Lugidii.
Sep. 30. Lugadh, Airthir Achaidh
Aug. 6. Lughadh, Guana Fo-
bhair.

Jan. 6. Lugidon Mac Declain.

Jan. 14. Lugei S. in Inismor.

Mar. 9. Lugida, Cille Cule. A.

Apr. 28. Lughtigern MacCutritae.

July 21. Lugan S.

Aug. 16. Lugain. S.

Oct. 6. Lugech, S.

May 12. Lughaeth MacAongusa

May 22. Luigsech, Vir.

June 16. Lugo, Sac.

Jan. 20. Lugna, Cruimthir o, Cill

Tarsna.
Apr. 25. Lugna Lettrach.
Dec. 23. Lugnait Presbyter.
Dec. 31. Lugnei Diaconi
May 11. Luguir Infirmitas.
Feb. 17. Lurechmac Cuanach.in

AthtruimPatriciihos-

tiarius.

Apr. 30. Luta, Vir., Droma Dair-
breach.

Jan. 16. Mac Aililla — Droma
Bairr.

Oct. 4.
Aug. 14.

Apr. 24.
Dec. 18.

Mar. 24.
Apr. 25.
Jan. 29.
Mar. 8.
July 11.

Mar. 10.

Sep. 6.

Sep. 7.
Sep. 19.
Jan. 1.

Sep. 9.
Apr. 15.

July 15.

Jan. 31.
Apr. 19.

Jan. 20.

May 17.

Jan. 25.
Oct. 30.

Feb. 8.
Apr. 7.

Mac Caille.

Mac Antsahr Eps. et
Abb., Maolanfaidh
Daire Innse (Mo) an a
island in Blackwater
near You gh all.)

Mac Becgaini.

Mac Cathbadh o Mi Hue
(in Antrim,Crumlin).

Mac Cairthend Eps.

Mac Caille Eps.

Mac Conna.

Mac Colaim Chirr.

Mac Conlocha, Falbhe
nomen ejus in Disuirt,
mic Conlochae i Cur-
chib.

Mac Cniadeni

Mac Cuilin Eps., Lusca
(Lusk, Dublin).

Mac Culind.

Mac Coirgi Sac.

Mac Decill h. Eacha,
Uisneach (Usny Hill,
Westmeath).

Mac Dergein.

Mac Draigin o, Cill
Koaidh.

Mac Ercain o, Bruigh
Long.

Mac Eachach.

Mac Ercca, o, Dermaigh
(Durrow, King's Co.)

Mac h Ucae o, Latch-
aoin.

Mic Gnaislaingi o, Chlo-

Mach.GreccaiFinchill.

Mac h. Gualae, vel Mao
h-Gaille di Guilinni di
UUtaib do, ocus illaind.

Mac Liac, Eps., Liath-
dronima*

Mac FiiaCi

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Aug. 9. Mac Liag.
Mar. 29. Mac Lumani Liaich.
May 16. Mac Laare, Ab., Benn-
choir.

May 20. MacLaithbe, Domnaigh-
rooir.

Sep. 12. Mac Lasre.

May 10. Mac Lemruin.

Feb. 9. Mac Nathseman, vel mac
Netha, i Cuaran Sapi-
ens, vid. Crona.

Feb. 9. Mac Nectha.

Mar. 1. Macnisi, Epis.

Feb. 19. Mac Nemnaill, i, Deg.

May 1. Mac Nisse, Eps.

June 13. Mac Nise, Ab., Cluana
Mac Nois.

June 17. Meic Nechtain, Droma
Bricci.

Oct. 3. Mac RethL

Oct. 9. Mac Tail.

Sep. 8. Mac Talaraigh.

June 11. Mac Tail, Cille Cuilinn,
qui et Eogban prius
dictus est.

Apr. 13. Mac Tarechair Loch a
Mic Nina (on the bor-
ders of Cavan and
Fermanagh.)

June 16. Mac Treno.

Sep. 29. Mac Jeir.

May 14. Maelcetair Mac Ronain.

June 6. Maelathgeani.

June 10. Maeliduin, S.

Oct. 2. Maelduib Bic.

Oct. 20. Maelduibh.

Oct. 23. Maeletula mic Tiain.

July 30. Maoltuile mac Mochuire

Oct. 25. Maeluidir.

Feb. 7. Maenucan, Atha Liac—
(Athleague.)

Aug. 21. Magin Mor.

Jan. 2. Manchinni, Sapiens.

Jan. 13. Manchinni Mac Collain.

Jan. 24. Mancan Leith Mac io
Dagda.

Feb. 14. Manchani, Moethla cum

sociis suis. (mothil)
May 1. Mancbeni.
Dec. 29. Mancbeni.
Oct. 21. Manchini Lobor.
Oct. 19. Maignenn oCill Maigh-

nein (Kilmainham.)
Dec. 18. Maignenn o Cil! Maig-

nein (Kilmainham.)
Mar. 2. Mantan ocus.
Feb. 23. Mannan Aird Suird —

- (Rathurd, Limerick.)
May 27. Maolan Snamha Luthair
Jan. 4. Maolan, Eanaigh.
Jan. 10. Maolodhran.
Jan. 31. Maolanfaidh, Dairinsi—

(Molana island, in

the Blackwater, near

Youghal.)
Aug. 14. Maolanfaidh.
Feb. 7. Maolan Mona Maolatn,

(Mac Daire.)
Feb. 19. Maoldobharchon.
May 11. Maoldoid.
May 13. Maoilidoid.
Apr. 21. MaoIrubadhBeannchoir.
Apr. 20. Maoloctraigh.
July 7. Maolruain, Eps., Tam-

lachta (Tallaght, Dub-

lin.)

July 16. Maolodhar o Brimolt.

Aug. 10. Maolruain, cum reliquiia
sanctorum et virginum
ad Tamlacht venit.

Mar. 6. Maolruain Droma Ratha

Aug. 18. Martan.

Aug. 21. Masse.

Apr. 25. Matoc Ailithir.

June 6. Medrain, Eps.

June 8. Medran.

May 19. Meic, tri Eoghain.

Aug. 9. Meic (Cethri) Ereain.

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Feb. 7. Meic, (tri) Daire Conan
ocus Cretan ocus
Maoland Mona Mao-
lain.

Aug. 9. Meic(Cethri)Dimmain.
Feb. 6. Meli, Eps.
Mar. 9. Mellae.
Oct. 28. Mel Ian.
Mar. 19. Mella, Cluana hi.
Mar. 31. Mella, Dai re Melle.
Feb. 7. Mtllan Iui*i mic h.Cuinn
Oct. 26. Mellain, Sanctus de Bri-
tannia.

Jan. 26 Menna Tiri in h. Meith.
Dec. 23. Mernoc,
Mar. 7. Metan o,Thuaim Athi.
Jaa. 17. Micae, S.
Feb. 17. Midu, mac Fachtna o,
Sligid.

Mar. 23. Midhui mac Midgnai, i,
Momedoc Fcda Duin.

Feb. 22. MiadhnatAiridDrochait

Apr. 10. Midgusa, S.

May 18. Midgus Mac Eire, Cilli-
tullten.

Mar. 23. Mianach.

Mar. 23. Mianach, Fothirbe Lia-
thain.

July 18. Miannach Mac Failbe.
Aug. 1. Mica Ernaidhe.
Aug. 4. Midhnat, Cilli Lucinne.
Sep. 30. Mobi Clarenccb, Dom-

naigh Broc.
Oct. 28. Mobeoc.
May 29. Mobecco.
Oct. 12. Mobi Clarinech Mac Be-

oaidh, do Chorcutri, do

Lugnibh Connacht.
Jan. 4. Mochonna, Droma Ailchi
Jan. 13. Mochonnae, Eps., Leaui-

choille.

Jan. 25. Mochonna Ernaidhe.
Mar. 8. Moconna, Essa Mac
Neirc

Mar. 8. Moconna, Daire (Denry)
Mar. 27. Mochonnae, Maighi Eo
(Mayo.)

May 3. Mochonna Daire(Derry)

May 13. Mochonnae.

May 19. Mochonnae Chille Co-

mairthe.
June 7. Mochonne.
Sep. 30. Mochonna Cuairne.
Oct. 30. Mocholmoc, Ab. Camsa

i-mac h. Gualle.
Jan. 22. Mocholmoc, Lismoir Mic

% h. Beona.
July 25. Mocholmoc h.Fiachrach
Feb. 9. Mocholmoc Cluainlraird

(Clonard, Meath.)
July 19. Mocolmoc mac h. Amla.
June 7. Mocholmoc Drorama-

moir.

Jan. 23. Mocelloc o Thilaigh

Ualann.
Mar. 7. Mocelloc.
Mar. 26. Mochelloc i Mac Tulo-
• drain o, Chathair mic

Conaich (Waterford.)
Dec. 23. Mochelloc.
Jan. 25. Mochua.
Jan. 18. Mochua.
Mar. 3. Mochua, Cluana Dobtha.
Mar. 8. Mochua Mac Nerahain.
Mar. 12. Mochua, Ailiuin.
Mar. 19. Mochua, Arasnai.
May 4. Mochua. Mac Cuimmini

Sleibhi Eibhlinni.
June 4. Mochua Cichech.
June 22. Mochua Luachra, idem

ocus Cronau o, Ferna

(Ferns.)

June 13. Mochua Cruimthir, Clu-
ana Tibrat.

Aug. 6. Mocua, Cluain Dolcain
(Clondalkfu.) '

Dec. 21. Mochua, o, Caill Iunai
Ailce.

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Aug. 3. Mochua Crochain.
Dec. 23. Mocua Mac Aonghusa.
Dec. 24. Mocua Mac Lonain-i-

Cronan.
Oct. 21. Mocbuoe h. Liathain.
Apr. 13. Mocammoc, Innsi Cain.
Jan. 23. Mochupa.
Mar. 13. Mochoemog, Leithmoir

(Leemokeevoge, near

Thurles.)
Mar. 24. Mochta, Lugmagb Curo-

man (nonien) matris

ejus.

Aug. 19. Mochta, Lugmadh —

(Louth.)
Mav 16. Mochamail.
May 1. Mochoemi, Tiridaglas —

(Terry glass.)
May 7. Mociarocc idem et Cia-

ran.

May 11. Mocritoc. i. Critan mac
Illadon i n-Arainu.

May 14. Mochutta, Lismoir (Lis-
more, Waterford.)

May 25. Mocholla inghen Diomo.

June 23. Mocboe Sac, Abb., Noen
Droma (Inishmahee in
Strangford Lough.)

June 17. Mochommoc Mac Do-
borchon.

Sep. 9. Mochotta Droma, i. Mae
Dergain.

Dec. 26. Mochomoc.

Sep. 25. Modain. i. in Ailbhe.

Dec. 18. Modion.

Jan. 7. Modichu.

Feb. 10. Moduit oCill Moduit in
Ibh Maine (Hy Many,
Roscommon.)

Mar, 3. Modimoc, Eps.

Apr. 26. Modimoc, Cluana Cain.

May 18. Modomnoc,Tiprad Fach-
tnai(Tybroughney, Kil-
kenny, near Carrick.)

May 25. Modomnoc.

Oct. 4. Modgrinn.

Feb. 13. Modimoc o, Tiprat Fach-
tna (Tybroughney, Kil-
kenny, near Carrick-
on-Suir.)

Apr. 11. Moedoc, h. Dunlaing, L
Cluain Moir.

Dec. 25. Moelani, Eps.

May 27. Moelan, Snamh Lutbair.

Dec. 28. Moelcoisne.

Sep. 8. Maelecaisni.

Oct. 15. Maelicosni.

Mar. 12. Moelcoirgeas.

Feb. 22. Moelan, Achaidh.

Mar. 6. Moeldub Mac ficrani.

April 20. Moelochtraigb.

May 21. Maelidoid, Lismoir.

May 29. Maeltuille.

May 31. Moelodran, Slaini
(Slane, Mcath.)

Jan. 10. Maelodhran.

June 29. Moeldoid, i Falbhe Mac
Dara.

Oct. 2. Maelduib Beag.

Sep. 18. Moelcanaigh.

Oct. 8. Moelifitrigh.

Oct. 21. Moelatbghanacb.

Dec. 18. Moeldubh, Cluana Co-
naire (Cloncurry, bor-
ders of Meath aud
Kildare.)

Dec. 23. Moeldubh.

Feb. 26. Moenna.

Mar. 18. Moedoc, Cluana Es-
craich.

Feb. 7. Moenucan, Atha Liacc.
May 21. Moenind ocus Polan.
July 13. Mosiloc, Cluana Daeth-
caoin.

July 25. Mosiloc i Dalta Moling.
Dec. 17. Moedoc Mac Miursen.
Dec. 29. Moedocc, Lismoir.
Dec. 23. Mogoroc Deirgine.

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Dec. 26. Mogenoc, o Cill Dumha

Gluinn (Kilglin, Meath

near Kilcock.)
Feb. 11. Mogoboc, Hatha Lam-

paighe nomen idem

ac Goban.
Oct. 4. Moshinoc Mac Cuacha.
Dec. 26. Moibea Eanaicb Eilte —
(AnnahiltlveaghDown)
Jan. 17. Molaisse o Cill Molaisse.
Jan. 19. Molaisse Mac h. Necbti.
Mar. 8. Molasse Mac Aedha.
Apr. 18. Molaisse, Letghlinne —

(Leighlin.)
Aug. 12. Molaissi, Mac Deglainn

Innse Muiredhaigh.
Sep. 7. Molasi, S.
Sep. 12. Molaissi Daimhinsi, i,

Mac Naitfraioch (De-

venisb, in Loch Erne.)
Sep. 16. Molaisse Mac Lugair.
Jan. 8. Molibba Mac Colmada,

frater fiagain in Glin-

d aloe ha.

Feb. 18. Molibba in h. Eachach

Uladh vol. h.Gairchon.
Aug. 6. Molibba Goirt Cirb —

(Gortcrib in Down ?)
Dec. 17. Molioc.
Jan. 7. Molocse Liphechair.
Mar. 22. Molocca mac Colmain

find i Lilchaich.
Mar. 26. Molocca, Lilchaic.
July 20. Molochae Sleibe Bladh-

ma (Slievebloom).
\ug. 9. Molochae Mac Liac.
Aug 13. Molochae Mac Cairthind.
June 17. Moling Luaim.
Dec. 2i. Molua o Mungairit —

(Mungret, Limerick.)
June 25. Moluoc, Lismoir.
Aug. 4. Molua MacOchei Cluana

Ferta (Clonfert-Mulloe

Queen's County.)

June 4fc Molua Etar Droma.
Oct. 18. Moluanen, Tamlaghta-

(Tallaght).
June 19. Molomae Domnaig Im-
leacha.

Jan. 16. Monua Maighe Nuadh.

Mar. 1. Monend, Eps.

April 18. Moninnsen o, Mainister,
(Monasterboice.)

Sep. 16. Monenn Cluana Conaire
(Cloncurry, borders of
Meath and Kildare.)

July 6. Moninna Sleibhe Culen,
quae et Darerca prius
dicta est (SlieveguiU
lion, Down.)

July 22. Monecha Mac Naeb.

Aug. 13. Momedoc Feda Duin —
(Fiddown, Kilkenny on
the Suir.)

Mar. 23. Momedoc Feda Duin —
(Fiddown, Kilkenny,
on the Suir.

May 18. Momedoc Feda Duin, uc.

Midu Mac Midgniu,
(Fiddown, Kilkenny,
on the Suir.)

Mar. 15. Monisu Mac Nessan.

July 22. Moronoc Droma Sam-
raid h.

Aug. 1. Morioc Innsi Lugini.
Jan. 8. Moshacra Mac Bennain.
Mar. 3. Mosacra Mac Senain i,

Tigh.Tliucia (Saggart,

Dublin.)
Mar. 11. Mosenoc,velSenanBen-

trech.
Jan. 10. Mosenoc.
May 10. MoshinoCjCluana Caich-

ne.

Feb. 28. Mosienu Mac h. midh, i,

Sillan, Ab. Banchoir.
Sep. 11. Mosinu.
Dec. 23. Mosenoc.

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Dec. 27. Mopioca Mach.Cormaie

Dec. 24. Moienmioc.

Dec. 23. Motemnoc,CInanaFerta
Molua(Clonfert Mulloe
near Bonis in Ossory.)

Oct. 18. Motheca, Ruscaighi.

Am*. 20. Mothrianoc, Ruscaighi.

Feb. 2. Motrianoc Mac Aongusa

Juno 9. Mothorae, Domnaigh
Cliabra.

Jan. 27. Mugen, Abb., Glinni

Usen (near Carlo w.)
Mar. 4. Mucini Maighni(Moyne)
Mar. 20. Muccini.
Mar. 6. Muodan, Cairn Furbuid-

he (in Longford near

Kilmodan.)
Aug. 29. Muadan, Airecail Mua-

dain,

June 8. Murcban Mac h.* Mach-
tini.

Ji *ie 12. Murcbon.

Aug. 12. Murcadh, (Miuredecb

potius) o Cill Alaidh —

(Kiliala.)
Sep. 29. Muirgaili.
Dec. 18. Muinis Eps., Abb.,

Forgnaige — (Forguey,

Longford.)

N.

Jan. 18. Nannidh, Innsc Samb
for Loch Erne (Inn is-
macsaint in Loch
Erne.)

June 2. Nainnidi, Guana Us<>nd
(Glanussen, near Car-
low.)

Oct. 26. Nasad, Beoani ct Mcl-
lain, tres SS. de Bri-
tannia et in un& eccle-
sia sunt in h. Eachach
Uladh in Tamlachtan
humail, ic Loch Bri-
crend.

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May 12. Nasci.

July 31. Natalis S. Cill Manach
(Kilmanagh, KiU
kennv.)

Aug. 1. Nathi Chule Fothirbe.
Aug. 9. Nathi Sac, in Achadh

Conaire (Achonry.)
Oct. 28. Nathi.

Oct. 15. Nativitas Coloiani mic

Lenin.
July 12. Nazair o Leith.
Mar. 3. Neccan.
May 3. Neccani
Jau. 8. Nechtanan.
May 23. Nechtlaicc Eps.
Apr. 22. Nechtani mac h. Baird.
May 2. Nechtaiu, o Cill unchi i

Conaillib i Fidh Con-

ailii.

Feb. 18. Nem Eps., Dromaber-

tach. V feria semper

anno xl. mu.
June 14. Nem mac h. Birn.
Mar. 8. Nemain, i (Duir Insc)

Mac Colaim Chirr.
Sep. 13. Neman mac h. Duib.
Mar. 15. Nesloga, (filius Nessani.)
Mar. 17. Nessani, Corcaighe—

(Cork.)

July 26. Nessani, Mungairit —
(Mungret, Limerick.)

Sep. 29. Nessan, Uladh.

Jan. 16. Ninnida, Leth derc.

Apr. 21. Ninidh, Bugno i Tir
Bret.

July 25. Ninnio. Senior.
Jan. 27. Noe, Finnglaisse.
Jan. 27. Noele, Inbhir.
Mar. 4. Noel Eps., o Clochair
Bainni.

Sep. 9. Noebh inghena Enaigh
Loeg.

Oct. 3. Not, mac Rethi.
Feb. 19. Nodtet Eps.
Oct. 3. Nuada Auchorita.

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Jan. 19. Ochtedi, S.
Fob. 19. Odran o, Tiroenaig.
Mar. 6. Odran, S.
May 8. Odrani, Eps.
May 16. Odran Sac.
Sep. 10. Odran.

Oct. 27. Odrani Sac, Lettracha

vel o Hi.
Jan. 31. Oebhnait find o, Ros na

Seancha

Feb. 16. Oenghus Eps, Hatha na

n Espuic.
Feb. 18. Oenghus.
Feb. 26. Oedhluga S.
Jan. 20. Oenu mag h. Laiprse,

Abb., Cluana Mic

Nois.

July 22. Oiseni Eps.

July 24. Oileach, Cluana Etchen

July 9. Onchon.

July 14. Onchon mic Blaithmic.

Feb. 20. Olcan Eps.

Aug. 1. Olbe.

Apr. 6. Ordinatio Patricii.

Jan. 1. Ossene Cluana Moir —

(Clonniofe, Wexford.)
Feb. 17. Ossan, Eps.
Feb. 17. Ossan, in Athtruim —

(Trim.)

July 19. Ossen o, Thergaidh.
May 1. Osseni mac Mailesnc-
achia.

P.

July 31. Papan.

Mar. 17. Patricii, Eps.

Aug. 24. Patricii Abb. Eps. Ros
dela (near Durrow
King's County.)

Aug. 24. Patricii, Ilostiarii, et
Abb. Ardwaeh.

R.

June 10. Retach mac Caemain.
Aug. 9. Rathnat.CUU Raihnaite
Apr. 13. Riagail mac Buachalla.
Oct. 5. Reliquiarum advent us

quas mac an eageas

congregavit.
June 11. Riagail Bennchair.
Oct. 16. Riogail Muiccinisse.
May 19. Ricilii, Vir.
Aug. 9. Riagain Cruimthir.
Dec. 18. Rignaigi inghen Fera-

daigh.

Oct. 30. Ririnich mac Echin ?

Jan. 15. Kobertaigh in Inismoir.

Feb. 16. Robni, Abb.

Sep. 25. Rodan.

May 1. Romani.

Jan. It. Ronani. ,

Sep. 18. Rioc Innse.

Jan. 13. Ronan.

Feb. 9. Ronani, S. Liosmoir.

Apr. 8. Ronan Mac mic Fergusa*

Apr. 30. Ronan, Liath Ros.

May 22. Ronani find, o Lann

(Ruadain), Ronain, in

manu recenti.
July 15. Ronani mic Magi.
June 18. Rottan ?
May 3. Roncend.
Apr. 15. Ruadan, Lothra (Lorra,

Upper Ormond, Tip-

pcrary.)
Feb. 8. Ruidchi, Vir.
Apr. 22. Rufini, Glinndalocha.
Sep. 25. Ruine.

Apr. 7. Ruissen, Innse Pichi — •

(Spike Island.)
July 23. Runach, Innse Moire.

S.

May 30. Saergusa bile.

May 9. Sanctan o Ciil da leas.

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Apr. 22. Saignen et Lachani Ar-

inaighi.
Apr. 11. Salomonis.
Dec. 18. Salutatio Marias ab Eli-

zaheth matre Johannis.
Dec. 19. Sarr.tan, Cluana Bro-

naigh (Clonbroney in

Longford.)
June 10. Sanbeirech, Chuiic

D re rrmi.
June 12. Santletan.
June 10. Santan Eps.
Jan. 8. Saran, Culicremha.
Jan. 13. Saran Eps.
Jan. 20. Saran.
Feb. 17. Sarani, in Athtruim,
Mar. 1. Saran Eps.
May 15. Sarani mic Airecbtair, o

Inismor in h. mac

Cuiile.
July 30. Sarani.
Aug. 1. Saran Bendchair.
Aug. 15. Sarani S.
Sep. 16. SaranL
Sep. 19. Saran mac Trenaicb.
Oct. 22. Sarani.

Apr. 15. Sarnat, Dairinis Cetnie ? j
Sep. 4. Sarbhile V. t Fochairde

Murtheimne.
July 24. Satanal Martir.
June 27. Scandail, i Cluain.
May 3. Scanudaili i Chilli Con-

braind.

Jan. 1. Seethe Vir. o, Fert
Sceithe.

Sep. 6. Scethi filiae Mechi reli-
quiarum adventus ad
Tarulacht.

Apr. 11. Scellaiui.

Sep. 6. Sciatb o Fert Sceitbi i
Muscraide tri Muighe.

Mar. 24. Scire, Vir.

Jan. 18. Scoth.

July 16. Scoth Cluana Moecana.

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; Jan. 2. Scuthin.
Apr. 24. Sechtan.
Aug. 22. Sedrach, Eps.
Apr. 20. Setrach, S. Eps.
Jan. 15. Seacht(t.e. seven)nEps,

Droma Airbelaigh.
May 24. Seacht ninghena Fer-

gusa, in Iniscealtra

(in Lough Derg in the

Shannon.)
May 28. Seacht n. Eps. o, Thigh

na Comairce.
July 21. Seacht n Eps, Tamh-

nuighe.

Aug. 23. Seacht n Eps, Dom-
naigh moir El maighe.

Oct. 3. Seacht n Eps, Cluana
Cuu.

Oct. 27. Seacht meic Stialain, o
Raith.

Dec. 19. Seacht meic Aodha,

Eachdruma.
Dec. 21. Seacht meic DretHU,

Iunse Uachtair (up*

per Island, Lough

Sheeling.)
Dec. 31. Seacht n-Espuic, im*>e,

in Doninach morLiphi
Apr. 24. Sechtmisid.
Mar. 9. Sedna, Droma Mac

Blae (the borders of

Louth near Slane.)
Mar. 9. Sedna, o Cill Aine i

Sleibh Breagh(Killany

in Slieve Bray, Louth.)
Mar. 10. Setnae. S.
Jan. 15. Setna Ep. Mac Treno?
Sep. 29. Sedrach cum S.S. reli-

qniis, Mac Iier.
Jan. 21. Scgain Cill Segain.
Jan. 29. Segini.

May 24. Segini, Airdmacba (Ar-
magh.)

Aug. 12. Segeui, Abb. Iae (Iona.)

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CATALOGUE OF IRISH SAINTS.

Sep. 10. Segen Abb.

Aug. 24. Segini.

Sep. 10. Senaig Giirbh.

Feb. 11. Senachi Sac.

Oct. 4. Seiiach Mac Caille ?

Mar. 1. Senani £ps.

Mar. 7. Senani, lose Cathaigh
(Scattery I sland, at tbe
mouth of theShannon.;

Apr. 7. Senan Abb.

Apr. 7. Senani Eps.

Apr. 9. Senani.

Apr. 11. Senani.

May 5. Senani.

Apr. 26. Senani.

June 2. Senani.

July 10. Senani.

Aug. 7. Senani.

Aug. 31. Senan Atha omua.

Sep. 4. Senani.

Sep. 16. Senani.

Sep. 25. Seuan Eps, Corcaigbe

(Cork.)
Sep. 30. Senani.
Oct. 11. Senanni, Eps.
Dec. 18. Seauan, Cluana, Moir.
Dec. 24. Senani Eps.
June 10. Senbeirach, Cuile Drem-

ni.

Mar. 30. Senioris Murmaighc.
Apr. 1 1. Senior Mac Maeldalua.
Dec. 17. Senchaid, o Dubadli,

idem et cail.
July 31. Sentreibh.
Apr. 2f0. Setrach, S.
Feb. 12. Siadal Eps.
Mar. 8. Siadail, Chinn locba.
Jan. 31. Sillan, Ciile Delga (Kil-

dalkey, Meath.)
Feb. 10. Sillani Eps. GUnuida-

locha.

Feb. 28. Sillan Eps. Banchoir—

(Bangor.)
Mar. 9. Sillani.

Mar. 28. Sillani.

May. 17. Sillani, Eps.

May 24. Sillani.

May 28. Sillan.

June 3. Sillen Eps.

Julv 1. Sillini.

June 21. Sillan, Glinni munire.

Aug. 25. Sillani mac Finncoin
Eps. Maigh Bile —
(Moville.)

Mar. 27. Sellani Keliquiarum ad-
Tent us.

Sep. 7. Sillani Eps. i Toitoe fo
Loch Eachach (near
Lough Neagh.)

Sep. 11. Sillani in Imligh Cassain
i Cualgni.

Oct. 10. Sillani.

Mar. 10. Silvester Eps.

Oct. 12. Silnatani.

Dec. 21. Siolan, Eps. Liosmoir
(Waterford.)

Aug. 21. Sinach Eps. Cluana
Iraird(Clonard, Meath)

Feb. 14. Sinach, Sratha Irenn.

Apr. 20. Sinaig.

Oct. 4. Sinach.

Aug. 22. Sinche Sae.

June 25. Sinchcll, Cille Achaidh
(Killeigh, King's Co.)

Mar. 26. Sinchelli Abb., Chilli
Achaidh — (Killeigh
King's County.)

June 15. Sinell h. Liathain.

Sep. 25. Sinell, Droma Bron.

Oct. 1. Sinell Sac, Maighi Bile
(Moville.)

Oct. 5. Sinche Vir. inghen Fer-
gna o Cruachan Mai-
ghi olma.

Jan. 12. Sinell.

July 17. Ststan, Sac, for Loch
Melge (Lough Melvin
Leitrim, Fermanagh )

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Mar. 23.
Apr. 23.
June 26.
Oct. 15.
Dec 28.

Jane 30.
Jan. 9.
Mar. 27.
May 23.
May 24.

Jan. 11.
Jan. 19.
Apr. 28.

June 21.
June 22.
Sep. 27.
Oct. 28.

Soairdlech ind Erdnen.
Sobarthein, S.
Soadbar Eps.
Soror Ultain.
Snedairle mac Cormaic
vel Comrisi.
Sporoc, inghen Coluim,
Suabsigi vir.
Suairleach Eps.
Strofan Cluana Moir.
Stellani, in Inis Cealtra

(in Lough Derg in the

Shannon.)
Suibne Abb. Iae.
Suibhne mac Eoghain.
Suibne, i Sceillicc —

(Skelligs on coast of

Kerry.)
Suibne, Eps. o C hob ran.
Suibne A bb.
Suibne, Sci.
Suibne.

Jan. 31.
July 8.

May 14,
June 12.

Apr. 14.
Aug. 7.

Aug. 17.
Apr. 16.
May 22.

July 30.
Feb. 8.
Feb. 28.

July 2.
Mar. 17.

Taeda mac Colgan.
Tadhg frater Celiani,

Martyris.
Talmachi, S.
Tarannan, Abb. Beand-
choir (Bangor).
Tassaghi, S.

Teraniani, Linnduachaill

(Maghereglinn.j
Temniani Mon.
Tetgaill mic Colbrain.
Teora Cailleacha,Droma

da dart.
Ternoc

Ternoc Anchorita.
Ternoc in Airudh muilt

oc Locuibh Eirne.
Ternoc Cluana Moir/
Tigearnach Eps.

Apr.

4. Tighearnach, Clitana
Eoais — (Clones, Mon-
aghan.)

Apr. 8. Tighearnach, Airidh.

July 7. Tiugmaich, Eps. S.

Dec. 27. Tiprati, Maighi Ratha.

June 11. Tochumracht Vir.

Sep. 6. Tochunni.

Aug. 11. Todile.

Jan. 1. Tobrea.

Mar. 30. Tola Eps., Cruibdigh.

Dec. 17. Toliaci, S.

Jan. 10. Tomini, Ardamachse—

Armagh.)
Mar. 18. Tomani, Eps.
Apr. 22. Tommae, Beauchoir —

(Bangor.)
Mar. 9. Tosai Uroma Luidchin.
June 12. Tommeni mac b. Birn,

i Ailithir Locha Uane.
July 26. Thomani.
July 16. Torptha.
June 17. Totholani,
Mar. 10. Torman.
July 8. Trea Aird Trea.
Aug. 3. Trea inghen Cairthind.
Aug. 9. Trea inghen Ailella.
Mar. 15. Trenach Derg.
Mar. 22. Treno mac Confeid.
Mar. 23. Treno S., Cilli Daelan.
July 6. Tri Inghena Erni a E~

nnch Dermaighi (Dur-

row, King's Co.)
July 6. Tri Inghena Maine in

Airiud Boine, Derraor,

Etne, et Cumman.
Aug. 1. Tri meic Lussen, Innse

Moir,i.*. Liber, Failbe,

et Olbe.
May 19. Tri meic Eoghain.
Feb. 7. Tri meic Daire, Lonan,

Cretan ocus Maolan.
Jan. 29. Tri Clairenigh,
Mar. 23. Trian.

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Feb. 23. Trianan o Arid Suird —
(Rathurd, Limerick.)

Mar. 15. Tui Ingbeu Eltine.

Dec. 22. Tua Mac b Roida, idem
et Ultan Tigbe tua—
(Taptoe near May-
nooth.)

Apr. 1. Tuan mac Cairill mic

Gerain.
Aug. 17. Tuchain.
Jan. 6. Tuililatha Vir. f Abb.,

CilUdara (Kildare.)

U.

Oct. 12. Uanfind ingben Bairind,
matbair Berchan, Abb.
Glaisnoenda.

Aug. 9. Udnochtan.

Dec. 29. Uinii Javii Senis.

Mar. 14. Ultain b. Aignigb.

Apr. 4. Ultan mac Caitte.

May l.Ultani.

IRISH SAINTS.

Apr. 27. Ultani.
July 1. Ultani.
July 1. Ultani.
July 3. Ultan.
July 10. Ultani.
Aug. 9. Uitani.

Sep. 4. Ultan mac. b Concbobair
Sep. 7. Ultani.
Apr. 24. Uildbriti.
Jan. 22. Umalghaidh— (Amalgh-
aidh).

Sep. 15. U(A)nmeiri,CluanaFoda
(Clonfad, Westmeatb)
Aug. 21. Unchan.

Uncbo ?
June 25. Uill mar Segue.
Aug. 27. Usaille mac b. Baird.

Sep. 10. Zepbani.
June 3. Zepbani.

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FROM THK

MARTYROLOGY OF DONEGAL.

Nov. 8. Abdia, mac Vodach.

Nov. 28. Accobran mac Bockra,
vide Tri Meic Bocbra.

Nov. 1. Aedb mac Roi o Foibren.

Nov. 21. Aedhan mac Concraidh,
o Cluain Eidhnech—
(Clonenagh, Queen's
County.)

Sep. 20. Aedban mac Oissin.

Nov. 2. Aedban mac Aengbusa
o Chill Moir Aedhain,
in Uibb Meitb Macha,
(Barony of Monaghan,
County of Monaghan;.

Nov. 9. Aedhnat, ingbean Loi-

chein.
Nov. 19. Aeldobhair.
Nov. 17. Aenghas, i.e., Buaidbeo,

o Chill Moir Airthir

Fine t ig-cionn muighe

h-Ealta.
Sep. 19. Aincbi.

Nov. 2. Ainmire, Abb., o Raith

Nuadha.
Nov. 1. Ailtin, Eps. ocus an Ogb

o Chill Insi.
Nov. 12. Angbas Ogh, inghean
m Breasail o Chruaich

Angbais.

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Nov. 1. An Ogh o Chill Inssi.

Nov. 10. Aodh mac Brie, Eps., o
Chill Air (Killare,
Westmeath) i Midhe,
ocus o Shliabh Liag i
Tir Boghaine i Cenel
Chonaill (Banagh Ba-
rony, Donegal).

Nov. 17. Aonghas Aine, o Chill
Moir (?)

Nov. 10. Asnad, vide Osnat.

Nov. 30. Baothghin.

Nov. 29. Baotan mac Breacain.

Nov. 13. Bairrfionn.

Nov. 8. Bairrfionn mac Aedha o
Achadh Chaillten, in
Uibh Drona (Idrone,
Carlow), fri Berbha
(Barrow) aniar in Uibh
Reithe,fri Leith-ghlinn
(Old Leighlin) andeas.

Dec. 3. Banban, Eps.

Nov. 2G. Banban Eps.Leithglinne
Do Cborco Duibhnc
do.

Nov. 24. Bearchan Innsi Rocbla
for Loch Eirne (Loch
Erne).

Dec. 4. Bearchan, Eps., ocus
Faidh, o Cluain Sosia
in Uibh Failghe (Clou-
sast, in King's Co.).

Dec. 3. Becan Mac Libren, Eps.

Nov. 9. Benignus, i. e., Benen
mac Seiscnein, Desci-
pul Phatraic.

Dec. 6. Beretchert Tulcha Leis.

Nov. 1. Bigill Tulcha,

Dec. 3. Birn, Eps.

Dec. 11. Blathmac

Yfov. 24. Boich, Maigistir.

X»ec. 6. Breacan, Eps.Aird Brea-
cain.

3i

Dec. I. Breaccan, Eps.
Dec. 1. Brenainn Droroa Liacc
Nov. 29. Brenainn, Abb. Biorra.
Dec. 8. Brenainn o Tethbaiih la

Connachta.
Nov. 1. Brenaind.
Dec. 13. Brenainn Eatarchluana.
Nov. 3. Brenainn Glaisi da

Cholptha.
Nov. 12. BrighOgh,oChillMuine
Nov. 4. Briostan, Eps. no Bir-

stan.

Nov. 4. Birstan, vide Briostan.

Nov. 1. Brughach, Eps., o Raith
Maighe Aonaich (Rath
probably near Manor
Cunningham.Donegal)

Nov. 3. Brughach.

Dec. 7. Buite, i e., Boetius, Eps.

Mainistrech — (Monas-
terboice.)

Nov. 13. Caillin mac Niatach.Eps.

Fiodnacha Maighe Rein
Nov. 26. Caindeach mac Bochra,

vide Tri Meic Bochra.
Nov. 5. Caindear inghean Cao-

lain o Rinn Allaidh.
Nov. 3. Cairicin (no Ciricin).
Nov. 1. Cairpre, Eps.
Nov. 1. Canan.
Nov. 4. Canan. Saccart.
Nov. 2. Caoin h ; Albanach, o

Chill Chaoimhe.
Nov. 30. Caoirahseach o Dhcar-

maigh Chuile Caonna.
Nov, 10. Caolcraibhdeach.
Nov. 3. Caomlach o Ratbain.
Nov. 3. Caomhan Euaigh Truim

i Laoighis.
Nov. I. Caomhog o Chill lusi.
Nov. 5. Caonna.
Dec. 3. Cassan.
Dec. 12. Catan.

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CATALOGUE OF IRISH SAINTS.

Nov. 17. Ceallan.

Nov. 24. Cianan.Eps.Daimbliagi

m-Breaghaibh (Duleek

in Meaih).
Nov. 29. Cianan.
Nov. )0. Ciaran, Eps.TiopratMac

Nenna.

Nov. 3. Ciricin, vide Cairicin.

Nov. 26. Coibdeanach, Eps. Arda
Sratha (Ardstraw).

Sep. 19. Coimhgheall Ogh.

Nov. 11. Coirpre, Eps. o Chuil
Raithin (Colerain).

Dec. 15. Colman.

Dec. 7. Colman.

Oct. 13. Colman Ailithir in Aus-
tria, mac Maoilseach.
lainn moir mic Domh-
naill.

i)ec. 12. Colman Eps. Glenne da
Loch.

Aug. 5. Colman mac Baoith o

Drum Uaithe.
Dec. 12. Colman, mac Ui Thel-

duibh.

Nov. 7. Colman Oilithir, o Iuis

Mocholraog.
Dec. 10. Colman.
Nov. 1. Colman.
Nov. 21. Colman mac Comain o

Arainn Airthir.
Nov. 5. Colman GlinneDealmaic

i Maigh Raighne in

Osraighibh.
Nov. 1. Colman mac Fionain o

Ath Iomghlaisi.
Dec. 14. Colman o Raith Maoil-

sidhe.

Dec. 14. Colman mac Fionntain.

Dec. 14. Colman Alainn.

Nov. 24. Colman DuibhChuilinn,
o Dun is na Reandaibh,"
ocus o Bealach Con-
ghlais i Lnighnibli.

Dec. 5. Colman Ua h-Eirc.
Sep. 3. Colman Droma Fearta

Mughaine, in Uibh

Failghe.

Nov. 24. Column mac Leinine t o
ChluainUamha in Uibh
Liathain.

Nov. 14. Colman insi Mocholmog
in Uibh Enechlais, in
Airthear Laighean.

Dec. 3. Colman, Dubh.

Nov. 8. Coluira mac Aedha, o
Chuil Damain.

Sep. 2. Colum mac Blaan.

Dec. 13. Col urn Tire da Ghlas.

Dec. 11. Colum mac AedhaCIaoin

0 Chuil Briuin.

Nov. 21. Columban, Abb., ro bai

isin Etail.
Oct. 13. Comdhan o ChluainCon-

naidh i Cuircne.
Nov. 21. Comman.
Nov. 10. Comman.
Nov. 15. Connait, Abb., Lis Moir
Nov. 3. Conodhar, Abb.Fobhair.
Nov. 14. Constans Saccart ocus

Angcoire o Eo-InU fri

LochEirnein Ulltoibh.
Dec. 14. Corbmac, Eps.
Nov. 3. Corcunutau o Dhoire na

Flann in Eoghanacht

Chaisil.

Dec. 13. Criotan mac Liothain.
Nov. 18. Criotan o Tuaim Mic

Cau.
Dec. 15. Cronan.
Nov. 1. Cronan Tuama Greine,

1 Tuadh-Mumhain.
Nov. 11. Cronan mac Sinill.
Nov. 6. Cronan,Abb.Beannchair
Nov. 1. Cronan, Maothla

Dec. 13. Cruirothear Corbmac o
Thelaigh Indenn.

Nov. 11. Cruimthear Domhnaigh
Moir.

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Dec. 11. Crundraaol Baoth.
Dec. 17. Crunmaol, Abb., Iae

Choluim Chille.
Nov. 10. Cuboirne.
Nov. 5. Ctrilleann Guana h-Ua-

manach.
Nov. 16. Curcach, Grecraighe.
Dec. 7. Cutlach.
Nov. 30. Cuimmein o Chill Nair.
S^p. ]. Cuimmein mac Cuanach.
Nov. 12. Cuimmin foda mac Fi-

achna, Eps. Cluana

Fearta Brenainn (ocus

o Druira Daliter).
Nov. 2. Daire Bochana, Feadhbh
Dec. 14. Dalian Aolmhaighe, Eps
Nov. 12. Danem o Druim Lethain
Nov. 11. Darearca.
Nov. 10. Deargaedh. Eps.
Dec. 12. Diarmait, Eps.
Nov. 1. Diocholl o Raith.
Nov. 3. Diomma.
Nov. 21. Diucholl.
Nov. 10. Doliobha.
Dec. 12. Dronan, Eps. o Chill

Dronnain.
Nov. 17. Diuchuill, i.e. Modichu

(Diuchuill ?)
Nov. 11. Dubhan, Saccart.
Nov. 17. Duileach Clochair, fri

Faoldruim andeas i

Fine Ghall.
Aug. 5. Duinsech Ogh,for Loch

Cuan in Ultoibh.
Dec. 11. Duinseach Ogh o Chill

Duinsighe in Ultu.
Nov. 12. Duthract o Chill Muine.
Nov. 2. Earc Slaince, Eps. Liol-

caich,o Ferta Fer Feicc.
Nov. 20. Basconn, Eps. o Bo-

Chluain i Laoighis.
Aug. 5. Echi Chille Glais ocus o

Seinlios a n-gar do

Shliabh Badhbhgna.

Dec. 11. Elltin o Cheann t-Saile
i n-deiscert Ereann.

Sep. 2. Enan mac Ua Mago.

Nov. 2. Enostan Cluana Dumha.

Aug. 5. Ernin Cluana Railgech.

Nov. 13. Ernin mac Duibh.

Nov. 12. Ernin mac Fionncbain,
Abb. Leith-Glinne.

Dec. 14. Ernin mac Seanaigh.

Nov. 14. Euhel, vide Tri Meic
Dubhthaigh.

Nov. 14. Fachtna o Chill Toma,
vid. Tri Meic Dubh-
thaigh.

Sep. 1. Failbhe Mac Ronain o
Cluain Airbhealaigh.

Nov. 13. Faoilend ingheanEogh-
ain Aidhne.

Nov. 5. Faolan.

Nov. 6. Fedbair Ogh o Bolhaibh
Eich Uaichnich i Tir
Ratha.

Nov. 15. Feardachrioch.

Nov. 3. Feardachrioch.

Nov. 10. Fearghas Insi Incas-
clainn for Loch Eirne.

Dec 9. Feidhlim Ogh, ocus Mu-
ghain Ogh, da inghin
Ailella mic Dunluing,
i Cill na n-Inghean in
Iarthar Liffe.

Dec. 15. Fethan o Chuil Grainc.

Aug. 5. Fethi.

Nov. 29. Fiadhnat

Oct. 13. Findsech Ogh o Shliabh
Guaire i n-Gaileau-
gaibh.

Nov. 14. Finnachta mac Dun-
chadha Ri Erenn.

Dec. 12. Finnen, Abb., Cluana
Iraird is in Midhe.

Oct. 13. Finnsech, Ogh o Shliabh
Guaire i n-Gaileangaib.

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CATALOG UK OF IRISH SAINTS.

Not. 9. Finnseach, Ogh o Chru-

achan Maighe Abhna.
Nov. 1. Finntina Ogh o Cluain

Guithhinn.
Dec. 8. Fionan Cuae, no Droma

Abhradh.
Nov. 25. Fionan mac Piopain o

Theampall Rath i Ce-

nel Chonaill.
Nov. 12. Fionnchadh Eps. Chille

Forga.
Nov. 8. Fionnchan.
Nov. 7. Fionntain.
Nov. 16FionntainLeamhchoi11e.
Nov. 13Fionnlugh.
Nov. 25 Fionnchu mac Fionn-

logha o Bri Gobhann i

Fearaibh Maighe Feine.
Nov. 10. Fionnrahoc, Eps.
Nov. 9. Fionntan.
Sep. 19. Fionntan,Ab.macAodha

Finnleith.
Dec. 14. Fionntan mac Lninidh.
Dec. 15. Flann Abb. Benuchuir.
Nov. 5. Flan nan.
Nov. 20. Fraochan, Eps o Bo-

Chluain i Laoighis.
Dec. 11. Fuineach Cluaua Bro-

naigb.

Nov. 22. Furadhran mac Garbrae-
thaigh.

Nov. 14. Gabhran, vide Tri Meic

Dubhtbaigh.
Nov. 21. Garbhan.
Dec. 7. Gein Coluira Cille.
Sep. 2. Geintin Saccart o Thir

Guaire.
Nov. 16. Gelchu.
Nov. 4. Gildas.

Dec. 6. Gobban Fionn Chille
Larahraidhe in Uibh
Caithrenn, in larthar
Osraighe.

Nov. 5. Gobban.

Aug. 5. Gormgal.

Nov. 10. Greallan o Chraoibh

G real lain i Connoch-

taibh. *

Nov. 18. Hilda, banabbocus Ogh
(Saxain).

Nov. 13. Ioain Lis Moir
Nov. 22. Jarlugha, Eps.

Nov. 10. Laeghaire.Eps.Chluana

Cream ha.
Nov. 28. Laidhgenn mac Bochra,

vide Tri Meic Bochra.
Nov. 9. Laisse Ogh, o Chluain

Lorn main.
Nov. 3. Lappan Cluana Aith-

glieiu.

Nov. 13. Lassair Achaidh Beithe,

inghean Ronain.
Nov. 2. Liber Martradaighe.
Nov. 1. Lonan o Trefoit i m-Bre-

aghaibh, ag Boinn.
Nov. 12. Lonan Caille Uailleach.
Sep. 3. Longaradh o Shliabh

Mairge, no o Muigh

Tuathat.
Nov. 14. LorcanO'Tuatbaill.Aird-

eps, Atha Cliath.
Nov. 2. Lughaidh mac Aenghusa

mic Nadfraoich, o

Druim Inesclainn.

Nov. 27. Mac Cairle.

Nov, 14. Machud.

Dec. 1. Mac Cainne.Eps. o Atha

da Laarg i taobh Chea-

nannsa.

Nov. 18. Mac Eire CilleAchaidh,
Eps.

Dec. 3. Maccoige, Abb. Lis Moir

Moch uda.
Nov. 13. MaeldeithmacDroighin.

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Dec. 2. Mainchein, i. e., Coic I

Mochta.
Dec. 4. Mainchein.
Nov. 12. Mainchen, Abb.Lismoir.
Nov. 24. Maine mac Eoghain.
Sep. 2. Maine.

Sep. 3. MaccneissiEps.Condoire
Nov. 3. Malachias. i. e. Maol-

maodhog Ua Morgair.
Dec. 17. Maodhog mac Mursain.
"Dec. 14. Maolan mac Meachair.
Dec 2. Maolodhrain o Thuaim
Inbhir in Iarthar Mtdhe
Nov. 11. Maolodhrain.
Nov. 1. Martan Insi Eidhnich
Nov. 6. Meadhan mac Colgan o

Lainn, Abhaich in

Ultoibh.
Nov. 22. Meadbbh Ardacbaidh.
Dec. 6. Meallan, Saccart.
Nov. 16. Meic Caolain, o Mucurt

Mor.

Sep. 1. Meic Caimeine.

Nov. 14. Meic Dubhthaigh, vide

Tri Meic Dubhthaigh.
Nov. 12. Meic Earca, vide Tri

Meic Earca.
Dec. 11. MelteogChinnt-Saile.
Nov. 12. Metbea4 Chaol, Ogh,

o Diseart Meithle i

Fearaibh Arda.
Dec. 3. Mic Rend.
Nov. 16. Mida mac Maoil.
Nov. 18. Miodhnat o Chill Liu-

chaine.
Nov. 19. Mochian.
Dec. 13. Mobaoi Cluana Fanna-

bhair, no Cluain da

Andobhair in Uibh

Muireadhaigh.
Nov. 3. Mochaomog, Ailithir.
Nov. 9. Mochonna tfecc.
Nov. 16. Mochonna mac Fionn-

logba.

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Nov. 18. Mochonnocc Uamacb.
Nov. 10. Mochruadoch, Airdne
Coluim.

Nov. 21. Mochua Cluana Crainn.
Nov. 15. Mochlaoine, Eps.
Nov. 12. Mocop Chille Moire.
Dec. 10. ModiomogEps.oChluain

Cain Aradb iain Mum-

hain.

Nov. 3. Moego Insi Conaill.
Sep. 20. Moghaidh, Saccart.
Dec. 17. Moliacc.
Aug. 5. Molioba o Ghort Chirp.
Nov. 21. Molua.

Dec. 16. Mophiocc o ArdCamro'S
for bru Locha Carman.

Dec. 9. Mosegha mac Coimsigb.

Dec. 1 1. Moseanog Mughna, o
Bealacti Mughna iu
Iarthar Laighean.

Nov. 15. Mughain Ogh, inghean
Ere i Slebh Dionn.

Dec. 15. Mughain Ogh o Chluain
Boireann.

Nov. 3. MuirdheabhairEgnaidh,
o Disert Muirdehra in
Uibh Conaill Gabhra.

Nov. 3. MuirdheabhairmacCua-
nain, i.e., Muirdealach
in Inis Eoghain.

Nov. 11. Murghal, i. e. f Milidh
Christ.

Nov. 19.
Nov. 13.

Dec. 11.
Nov. 22.
Dec. 6.
Dec. 1.
Dec. 1.
Sep. 1.
Nov. 25.

Naemhlugh.

Naindith, Eps. Chille

Tomo i Midhe.
Natfraich, Eps.
Neachtain Ogh.
Neassan.

Neassan Innsi Doimhle.
Neassan Corcaighe.
Neman, Eps. o Chill Bia
Noe.

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Dec. 2. Nuadha mac Duibh-
sleibhe. Abb. Chluana
h-Eois.

Nov. 13. Odharnat o Dhruim Mic

Fearadhaigh.
Dec. 7. OUan.

Nov. 10. Osnat Ogh, no Asnad.
Aug. 5. Oswald.

Aug. 5. Rathnat Chille Raith.

Dec. 16. Rodaighe o Ghreallaigh
Bhunna etir Thanih-
lachta ocus Cheanan-
nas.

Nov. 23. Roinni.

Nov. 18. Ronan mac Bearaigh, o
Druim Fionnasclaing,
no Ineasclaum, i Co.
naillibh Muirtheimhne

Sep. 21. Saran macTighearnaigb
mic Maenaigh, i Sliabh
CalIann,ocusoChluain
da acra is in Ceachair.

Nov. 9. Sarnat Ogh, inghean
Aedha a Tir Maine.

Dec. 10. ScanlachardaScanlaighe
i Cenel Ardgail.

Sep. 1. Sceallan lobar, o Ard-
Maclia.

Sep. 19. Seachan.

Nov. 1. Seachtn-Epscoip. Chille
Tidil.

Nov. 27. Seachnall, i.e., Secun-
dinus, mac Seathar
Phatraic, o Domhnach
Seachnaill, i m-Brea-
ghaibh.

Nov, 2. Seanach, Saccart Chille
Moire.

Dec. 5. Seanan mac Miodhrain

o Delg-Inis.
Sep. 2. Seanan Lathraigh Briuin

in Uibh Faolain.

Dec. 1 7. Seanchadh.

Nov. 12. Seighin.

Dec. 11. Senchan,Eps. ocus Abb.

0 I ml each Iubhair.
Nov. 10. Senic.

Nov. 26. Seren.

Nov. 12. Sineall mac Mianaigh o
Chlaoin Inis for Loch
Eirne.

Nov. 9. Sinech o Chluain Leth-

tengadh, Ogh.
Dec. 4. Sineach.
Dec. 4. Sioran, Abb.
Nov. 26. Sinic.Eps.oMuighBolg,

1 Fearaibh Cul, i m- Bre-
aghaibh.

Nov. 7. Sodalach Angcori.

Nov. 10. Sodhealbh Ogh i Muigh
Conaille.

Dec. 4. Suair leach ua Ciarain,
Abb. Lis Moir.
3. Suairlech, Saccart.

Nov. 21. Subhach.OghoChorann

Nov. 4. Tighearnach Doire Melli

Dec. 4. Tomas Droma Cuicce.

Nov. 30. Toman Sacart.

Nov. 27. Toca mac Cuain.

Nov. 28. Tri Meic Bochra, i. e.,
Laidhgenn, Caindeach,
ocus Accobhran, ocus
o Achadh Raithin, in
Uibh Mac Caille i n-
DeisibhMumhau doibh
Bochra ainm a mathar.

Nov. 14. Tri Meic Dubhthaigh,
i. e. v Fachtna, o Chill
Toma; Gabhran ocus
Euhel an dias eile.

Nov. 1 . Tri Meic Dioma, o Thigh
Mac Dioma.

Nov. 12. Tri Meic Earca o Darm-
haigh.

Dec. 15. Uidhrin mac Buachalla.
Nov. 22. Ultan, Insi Daimh.

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INDEX

OF ALL PLACER NAMPD IN PRECEDING CATALOGUE, AND MANT
MODERN NAMES SUPPLIED BY JOHN o'dOKOVAN, KSO.

Abhla, 7, Achadh abhla, now
Aghoole, Co. Wicklow.
Achadh, 23.

— Beithe, 34, Aghavea, Co.

Fermanagh.

— Bo, 13.

— Conairc, 25.

— Chailtean, 3L

— Coraind, 12.

— Finnmaigh, 2.

— Fearta, 11L

— Garbhain, 16.

— Lurchair, 15.

— Mor, liL

— Na Cro, 12.
~ Ur, 18.

— Raithin, 3fL
Ailbe, 7.

Ailbhe, 23.

Ailich, 2.

Ailiun, 22,

Airthir Achadh, 22.

Airecuil, 4 (Errigal near Augher,

Co. Tyrone).
Airiud Muadan, 25.
Airidh, 18, 22.
Airidh Drochait, 22.
Airuidh Muilt, 12, 29,Derryvult,

Co. Fermanagh.

— Boinne, 18, 22.
Airdni, 10, 23.

Airdni Dairinis, LL

— Coluira, 35, Ardcolumb,

Co. Wexford.

— Coeman, (L

— Santletan, 6

Airinu, 23 (Aran island, Co. Gal-
way, St. Endeus).

Airthir Achadh, 20.

Amlabhair, Srath, 17.

Arainn Airthir, 32 South Aran
island, Co. Gal way

Ard Achadh, 35 (Ardagh) Co.
Longford).

Arda, 16* Co. Fermanagh.

Ard Bruin, L2.

— Breaicain, 3L Ardbrackan

Co. Meath.

— Bo, 6.

— Cain, 16, in Scotland.

— Cairne, 3.

— Casain, 2.

— Cruin, 12.

— Camros, 35 (near Wex-

ford).

— Lonan, L

— Leachuig, 13.

— Macha, LL 3iL

— Mor, 12.

— Suird, 21, 30-

— Stratha, 13, 32.

— trea, 22. "

— uladh, LL
Armaighi, 18, 27.

Arasnai, 22, Ardnascna, Holly-
wood, Co. Down.
Ath, Cliath, 34 (Dublin).

— da larg, 3i (near Kclls,

Meath).
Ath egais, 12.

— Eslain, 2.

— Iomglaissi, 32

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INDEX

Ath Ferna, 20 (Aghafarnhara in
Enniskeen, Co. Meat h).

— innic, 17*

— liacc, 21, 23 (Athleague,

Co. Roscommon).

— omna, 28, not Portumna

on the Shannon).

— triuim, 1,6* 9, 10, 1G, 17,

18, 19, 20, 20, 2jL

Balna a Ceara, 10, Bal, Co. Mayo
Baugor or Bennchor, 2, 3, 4, 5,
8, 11, 21, 24, 26, 27,
28, 29, 32, 34.
Bealach, UL

— Feli, 4*

— Mughna, 35 (Ballagh-

moon near Athy, Co.
K ild are).

— Duin, 5 (Castle Kieran

near Kells, Co. Meath)
Bentrech, 24*
Bjorra, 4, 31*
Bochluain, 33, 34*
Boithi,2 (Boho, Co. Fermanagh).
Boitb Conais, 8, near Cam Do-

nagh, Inishowen, Co.

Donegal.
Bothaibh Uaichnibh, 33.
Breachmagh, 2 (BreafFy, Co.

Mayo).

Brigobhan, 34 (Brigown, Co.
Cork).

Briraolt, 2lj Prymult, King's Co.
Bruicces, 6*
Bruig long, 8, 2IL
Bugno, 2a*

Caille Follomhan, 18,

Cailie Uailleach, 31 (Killoolagh
Co. Westmeath).

Caille Innse Ailche, 22*

Caisin Turbuidhc, 25 (Co. Long-
ford, in SlieveCarbiy)

Caissel, 4 (Cashel).
Cam Achadb, 6.

Cam&a of Camus, 22, Camns juxta
Bann, Co. London-
derry.

Cathe, 4

Cathair mac Conghuic, 22 (in

Waierford).
Cealchadh, LL
Cendselach, LL
Cennarain, &*
Chobran, 29*
Chuilgraine, 33*
Chuil Damain, 32.
Chuile Dremni, 27, 23.
Chule Fothirbe, 25*
Chuil Bruin, 32* -
Cill Achadh, 9, 15, 28, 34*

— Air, 31 (Killnre, Co. West.

meath).

— Aird, Ih (Killard, County

Wicklow).

— Aird in h. Ercain, 7, 12*

— Airter, 13*

— Alaidh, 25*

— Ani i Sliabh Breagh, 2L

— Arialgach, 13*

— Bia, ii5*

— Bice, 10*

— Caoimhe, 31.
Cule, 13, 20*

Cid Cluile, 3 (Kilcooley in various
counties).

— Coine, 6, 9.

— Colman, 14 (Kilcolman in

various counties).

— Comartha, 22*

— Conbrand, '£2*

— Cuanda Tuama, 15*

— Cullen, 21 (Old Kilcullcn,

Co. Kildare).

— Cunga, IT, lik
- Curcaire, LL

— Daelen, 2£

INDEX.

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Cill Daleas, 26 (Kill St. Anne,
Co. Dublin).

— Dara, 9, 30.

— Dea, 12,

— Dealgraighe, 20,

— Delga, 4, 28.

— Dumlia Gloinn, 24.

— Eo, 14 (Killoe, Co. Long-

ford).

— Finnmaigh, <L

— Forghe, 34.

— Gobail, 16, 19.

— Gobnaite, 1 Z (Killgobinet,

Co. Waterford).

— Glaisse, 13, 33 (Kilglass,

in various Counties).

— Gobra, 19.

— Jornse, 30, 3L

— Lamraidhe, 34 (Killemery,

Kilkenny).

— Lucinn, 22 (Killucan, Co.

Westmeath).

— Luichaine, 3JL

- Magnend, 8, LL» liL 21.
Cili Manach, 13, 23 (Kilnaman.
agh, Co. Kilkenny),

— Moduit in Ibh Maine, 23

(Kilmude.Co. Galway)

— Molaisse, 21 (Kilmolash,

Co. Waterford).

— Mor, 4, 10, 15, 31, 35.36

Kilmore, in various
Counties).

— Mor Aedhan, 311 (Kilraorc,

in various counties).

— Mor Airthir finne, 3C

(Kilmore, Co. Done-
gal).

— Mor Dithruib, 11, 14

(Kilmore, Co. Ros-
common).

— Muine, 11,31, 33 (Mene-

via or St. David's in
Wales).

Cill Nair, 32 (Killanare, Co.
Kerry).

— Na Ningean in Iarthair

Liffe, 33,

— Ratb, 30.

— Rathnat, 2fL

— Roa. 20 (Kilroe,Co. Mayo)

— Ruad, Z (Kilroot, Co. An-

trim).

— Segan, 21 (Kilsbane, Co.

Tipperary).

— Tarsna, 2SL

— Tidil, aii (Kilteel in three

counties.

— Toma, 33, 35, 36 (Kil-

toom, Co. Roscom-
mon).

— Tulhten, 22 (Kiltalten, Co.

Meath).

— Unci, i Conaillibh, 25 (Co.

Louth).
Cichech, 22,

Cinngaradh, 3, IB (in Scotland).
Cinnclair, 4 (in Westmeath).
Cindsali or Cennesaile, 22 (Kin-

saley, Co. Dublin).
Cinnlocha, 2fi (Kiniough).
Claonadh, 3.

Claon Inis, 3£ (Cleeniah, Co. Fer-
managh).
Clochair, 2, 33,
Clochair Bainni, 21L
Cluain, 2, 9, 10, 22,

— Achair, LL

— Aird, 3,

— Ajrbelaig, 14, 33,

— Aithgein, 34 (Clonkeei,,

Queen's Co )

— Andobh, 10.

— Aratur. 4, 12.

— Boireann, 35j 1*

— Bronaig, 27, 34.

— Braoin, 12.

— Caichne, 24,

40

INDEX.

Cluain Cain, 2, 3, 6* LL 15, 16,
23, 35 (Clonkecn, Co.
Louth).

— Carpthe, 3 (Kilbarry, Co.

Roscommon).

— Chluanaibh, 2iL

— Caeioin in Eoghanacht

Caisiol (Clonkeen, Co.
Tipperary).

— Cloenaidh, L8 (Clane, Co.

Kildare).

— Corainne, HL

— Conaidh, 32.

— Cruach, 1G.

* — Cream ha, 34 (Clooncraff,
Co. Roscommon).

— Craitin, 35*

— Cua, 27.

— Cuanlach, 6, 9*

— Cullaing, 10.

— Da Acradh, 36*

— Da fiach, L

— Dartuidhe, 1*

— Datchaoin, 23*

— Deochra, 13 (Co. Meath).
Cluain Diailama, 4*

— Diarmait, &.

— Dolcan, 10, 22.

— Dobtha, 22.

— Drennain, 33*

— Dumha, £L

— Each, 5*

— Eascraidh, 23.

— Eidneach, 16, 30.

— Emain, 2, 8.

— Eos, 29, 3&

— Etch, 26.

« — Fannahhar, 35.

— Fcrta, 4, 33.

— Fert Molua, 24, 25.

— Find, 13.

— Fidnaighe, 12.

— Fodha.

— Fobhair, 2SL

Cluain Fota, 19, M (Clonfad, Co.
Westmeath).

— Geisse, 2 (Clongesh, Co.

Longford).

— Grenaich, 2, 3*

— Guitbinn, 34 (Cloongefin,

Co. Roscommon).

— h., L 22 (Clooney, Co.

Londonderry).

— iraird, 15, 22, 28, 33.

— Laig, 211 (Clonleigh, Co.

Donegal).

— Lithtengadh, 36*

— Lommain, 34*

— Lothuir, LL
CI nan Mac Mad, 4.

— Mac Nois, 2L 26*

— Maolon 1 (Clonmellon,

Co. Westmeath).

— Mind, 19.

— Moecsna, 16, 17, 2L

— Mor, 12, 19, 23, 26, 28,

29 (Clonmore, Co.
Carlow).

— Railgeache, 14, 33.

— Railte, 5.

— Sosta, 3, 5, 31 (Clonsast,

King's Co.)

— Tarbh, 1 (Clontarf, Co.

Dublin).

— Tibrinn, 7, IS*

— Tibrat, 5, 22.

— Uamha, 32 (Cloyne, Co.

Cork).

— Uamhanach, 22.

— Ussend, 25
Comraire, 2*

Corcaighe, 3, 1G, 25, 28, 35.
Condoire, 35 (Connor, Co. An-

trim).
Corann, 36*
Corchatri, 22.
Craebh Lasri, 2.
Cremthanaihh, £L

INDEX

41

Cracl)igb, 3, LL
Craobh Grellan, iLL
Crochan, 2jL

Crich Maine, 1 (Co. Westmeath)
Cruach Anghasi,
Cruachan Maighi, 2fL
Cruachan Maighi, Abbna, 31
(Co. Tipperaay).

Cule, L

Cuile, 8.

Cule Lugdid, UL

Cule Cichmaigh, iL

Cule Crema, 27,

Cule Collaing, LI (Co. Cork).

Culruscaigh, 21L

Cuil Rathain, 32.

Cuanchaoin, 1L

Cuairine, 22.

Cunga, 2i 1&

Curchib, 21L

Daire, 22.

— Coelan, fL

— Eidneach, liL

— Lurain, 15 (Derry, Co.

Tyrone).

— Bruchais, L.

— Melle, 22, 3fi (Co. Lei-

trim).

— Mor, 2 (Derrym( re ilia*

Kilcolman, King's Co)
Dair lais, 20, 21 (Molana on the
Black water, Co. Water-
ford).

— Inis Cetnac, 22 (Dairinis

Coemhain in tbe haven
of Wexford),
il ulta, 9^
Damh Inis, 21.

Damhliacc, 32 (Duleek, Co.

Meath).
Da Moirne, liL

Dhiamair Lfi (Diaraor, Co. Meath)
Deirjne, 23 (Delgany);

Dearmagb, 9, 20, 30 (Durrow,
Co. Westmeath).

— Chuile Caonna, 31.
Delginis, ii£ (Dalkey island, Co.

Dublin).
Disart, 12, 18^ 20 (Disert).
Disart Fegoilsi, LL

— Muirdebrea, 35.

— Mocthle, 3iL
Diurtbach, 1,

Doire na Flann. 32 (Derrynavlan,

Co. Tipperary).
Domnaigb, LL
Domnach Aires, R.

— Mor, lii^L 32,

— Mor Elmaigh, 22±

— Mor Maeh Cobha, LL

— Mor Magh Luaduat, LL

— Mor Liphi, 22*

— Mor Petair, 5.

— Brocc, 22 (Donnybrook,

Co. Dublin).

— Cum Firla in Faelin, liL

— Cliabhra, 2iL

— Seachnall,36(Dunsbaugb-

lin, Co. Meath).

Druin,

Dubad, 23 (Dowth, Co. Meath).
LMiirin, lfL
Duir innse, 25,
Druim Abradh, 31*

— Ailchi, 22,

— Airbelaigb, 22.

— Bairr, 211 (Co. Fermanagh)

— Bertach, 25.

— Bide, 6, 21.

— Druim Bo, 10* 211 (Drum-

bo, Co. Down).

— Broon, 2*L

— Cremha, LL

— Cuicce, 3(L

— Cull 3 (Drumcullin, King's

Co.)

— Dairbreacb, 2IL

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INDEX.

Druim Dresna, 18 (Co. Roscom-
mon).

— Droma mac Blae, 27.

— Daliter, 33.

— Druilh, 10.

— Dudairth, 29.

— Dun is na Reanuaibh, 32.

— Euaigh, 16.

— Ferdaim, 5.

— Fearta Mughainn, 32.

— Fiona Esclaing, 36.

— Greine, 7.

— Inesclainn, 34 (Drumbkin

Co. Louth).

— Inghen, 9, 16.

— Lara, 5.

— Lethain, 33 (Drumlane,

Co. Cavan).

— Liacc, 10, 31.

— Luidcinn, 29.

— Mac Blae, 27.

— Mic Feradhaigh, 36.

— Mor, 12, 22 (Dromore,

Co. Down).

— Ratha, 7, 13, 21.

— Samradh, 24.

— Sueachta, 8 (Drumsnaght,

Co. Monaghan).

— tricca, 4.

— uaiche, 32.
Duubleisc, 16 (Doon, Co. Lime-
rick).

Eachdruim, 1, 4, 27 (Augbrim,

Co. Galway).
Eanach Eilte, 24.
Eanach, Ard, 18.
Eanach Dirmaigbi, 18, 29.
Eonaigh Truin, 31 (Annatrim,

Queen's Co).
Eatar chluna, 31.
Eator Droma, 24.
Eas mac neirc, 22 (Assylin, Co

Roscommon).

Easruaidh, 9.

Eo Inis Loch Erne, 32 (Aogh-
nish, or Au-nish, Co.
Fermanagh.

Erdaim, 14.

Ernaighc, 22 (Nurney, Co. KU-

dare).
Eachad Ulladh, 24.

Fail corcaighaie, 16 (near Cork).
Fail Fobhair, 4, 19 (near Fore,

Co. Westmeath).
Fedha Duin, 12, 22, 24 (Fiddown,

Co. Kilkenny).
Ferna, 22 (Ferns, Co. Wexford).
Fert Scethi, 27 (in Mu skerry,

Ardskeagh, Co. Cork).
Fidh Cullen, 3 (Feighcullen, Co.

Kildare).
Finnglass, 13, 14, 15, 25 (Finglas,

Co. Dublin).
Fiodnacha Magh Rein,31(Fenagh,

Co. Leitrim).
Fobhair, 1, 14, 19, 32, 17 (Fore,

Co. Westmeath).
Fochairde Murtbeimne, 27 (Faug-

hard, Co. Louth).
Foibren, 30 (Co. Roscommon)
Forgnaighe, 25 (Forgncy, Co.

Westmeath).
Fothirbe Liathain, 22.

Gabail, 17.

Gabhla liuin, 7.

Glaisi da Colphta, 31.

Glaisi noenda, 3, 30 (Glasnevin,

Co. Dublin).
Glenn, Asa, 9.

— da loch, 2, 5, 6, 11, 24,

26, 28, 32.

— faidhle, 13 (Gleneely, Co.

Wicklow).

— Medhoin, 19.

— Mona, 10, 11.

Digitized by

INDfcX,

Glenn Munire, 28.

— uissen, 8, 12, 25 (Kil-

leshin, Queen's Co).
Gort chiorb, 24, 35.
Greallaigh Bunna, 36.
Grecraighe, 33.
Grianart, 17.

Hiilan Tuirrui, 17.
lluaraaigh, 15.
Hy Eachacb, 24.

Ia, 1, 6, 10, 13, 14, 15, 27, 29.
33

lllaind, 20.
Imduaill, 5.

Iralech, 2 (Emly, Co. Tipperary).
I m leach, 2.

Itnleach Brenn, 7 (Imleach or
Emlagh Becan, Co
Meath).

Imleach Iubair, 36 (Emly).

Imlig, 2 (Emly).

Imlig Cassain, 28.

In is Mocholraoc, 32.

— Mor, 19, 20, 26, 27.

— Muiredaigh, 24.

— Oendaimh, 4 (Inisheny, in

Lough Ree, Co. Ros-
common).

— pic, 26.

— Rochla, 31.

— Samh in Loch Erne, 25.

— Uachtair, 27.
Iubhir, 25.

Inbhir Melge, 15.

— Becce, 1 6 (near Drogheda)

— Daoile, 11.
Iraird, 15,

Inis angin, 12.

— Bofiud, 7 (Boffin island,

Co. Mayo).

— Cain, 8, 11, 12, 23 (Inis-

keen, Co. Louth).

Inis Cail. 9 (Inishkeel, Co.
Donegal).

— Cuinhscraigh, 3, 12.

— Cathaig, 28.

— Cealtra, 6, 18, 27, 29

— Clothraind, 12.

— Coluim, 35 (St. Columb's,

in Loughgowna, Co.
Longford).

— Croind, 10.

— Dairah, 36.

— Detnae, 12.

— Dotnhle, 16, 35, 3, 6.

— Duine, 6 (Inchidouey, Co.

Cork).

— Eago, 3, 12, 13, 14 (the

Island of Egg, in Scot-
land).

— Eidneach, 35.

— ■ Eoghain, 35 (Inishowen,
Donegal).

— Ineasclainn, 33 (Drumis-

kin, Co Louth).

— Locha ere, 8.

— Locha crone, 9.

— Lugein, 24.

— Mac HiCuinn, 22 (In.

chiquin in Lough Cor-
rib, Co. Gal way).

— Medcoit, 1 (in the North

of England, see Bede).

— Menoc, II.

Laind, 17.

Lann Elo, 7 (Lynaliy, King's Co.)

— Ronan, 27 (in Corca Rui-

sen in Magrath near
Newry, Co. Down).

— Abhaich, (Glenavey, Co.

Antrim).
Lathradh, 26 (Latteragh, Tippe-
rary).

Lathrach Brin, 3G (barai;h
Bryan near Mayuooth)

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IM)KX.

Latchaoin, 20.

Leacain Midhe, 10 (Leckin, Co.

Westmeath).
Leidibth derg, 25.
Leithglinn, 4, 13, 24, 31, 33.
Leith mor, 23 (Leamakevoge, Co.

Tipperary, near Thur-

les).

Lemchaille, 10, 13, 16, 22, 34
Laughel, Queen's Co.)

Lemmaig, 11, 14 (Lavey, Co.
Cavan).

Leitbdruiin, 19 (Leitrim, in vari-
ous counties).
Lethet corcaighe, 4.
Lettrach, 20,
Liath dronima, 20.
Liath Ros, 26.

Liath droma, 16 (of Leathdruim

or Leitrim).
Lichaichi, 24.

Lilchaich, 6, 33 (near the river
Boyne).

Linnduachail, 7, 29 (Magheraglin,
Co. Down), another on
coast.

Lismore, ), 5, 10, 11, 13, 18, 22,

23, 24, 26, 28, 32,34,
35 36 (Co. Waterford,
Lismore in Scotland,
the church of St.
Moluoc, in Rosshire).
Lodi ere, 13 (Monahincha near
Roscrea).

— Cuan, 13.

— Echin, 7.

— Gerg, 1 (Lough Derg, Co

Donegal).

— Mac Nien, 21.

— Melge, 28.

— Muiremuir, 3, 7.

— Techet, 17.
— ' Uair, 19.

— Ri, 16 (in the Shannon).

Loch Uane, 2, 29.
Lothra, 26 (Lorrha, Co. Tippe-
rary).

Luaira, 24.
Luachra, 22.

Lugmadh, 23 (Louth, Co. Louth).
Lusk, 20.

Magh bile, 2, 3, 4, 10, 11, 15. 19,
28 (Mo villa, Co. Down)

— Duma, 9 (Maydoo, Co.

Longford).

— Eo, 7, 17. 18, 22 (Moyno,

Co. Clare, Mayo, Co.
Mayo).

— reamchoill, 13.

— leas, 13.

— locha, 4, 11, 15 (Moylagh,

Co. Meath).

— Liphi, 4, 18 (Co. Kildare)

— Mennota, 6.

— Muadh, 24.

— raighne, 32 (Co. Kilkenny)

— Rath, 29 (Co. Down).
Maighin, 1, 4, 11, 13, 19, 25

(Moyne, Co. Mayo).

Mainistir, 24 (Monasterboice).

Mainistreach, Genitive of Main-
ster, 31 (Monaster-
boice, Co. Louth).

Maighin Mor, 22.

Metaistruim, 3 (Most rim).

Miluic, 20 (Meelick, Gallenbar,
Mayo).

Midesul, 8.

Moethla of Moethail, 21, 32
(Mothil, Co. Water-
ford).

Mona Milam, 4, 21, 22.
Muicinnse. 2, 26 (in Galway Bay)
Muigh Bolg, 36 (Moybolgue, Co.

Meath).
Muigh Conaille, 36.
Mucurt mor, 35.

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Mungairit, 24, 25.
Murmuighe, 28.

Noendrum, 12, 23 (Inishmahee,

Co. Down).
Nuacongbail, 14.

Partraighe, 8 (Partry, Co. Mayo).

Ratha, 4, 27, 33.

Ratban, 31 (Rahin, King's Co.)

Rath Aidrne, 14.

— Durthaighe, 5.

— Dainnaigh, 10. Rathdow-

ney, Queen's Co.

— lipothen, 18.

— lampaighe, 24.

— Moen.

— Moentich, 4.

— Maoilsidhe, 32.

— - Nu n h Garchon, 11.

— Nu n espuic, 26.

— Muadha, 30 (Rathnue, Co

Wicklow).
— - Rechraind, 7, Port Roch.

rin (Rathlin island),

Lambay, Co. Dublin.
Rinn Allaidh, 31.
Ros Ailiter, 14 (Roscarberry, Co.

Cork).

— Crea, 2, 10.

— Cruinetchain, 6.

— dela, 26.

— fachtna, 10.

— Glass, 13.

— Maigh eanach, 31.

— Mor, 13 (Rossmore, Co.

Wexford).

— Na Saire, 8,

— na Seancba, 26.

— in gite, 18.

— tuirc, 4.

— Sech, 6 (Russagh. in the
parish of Diamor, Co. Meatb).

Ros, 8, 11.

Ruis Brandubh, 8.

— Cumulcba, 5.

— Banchuir, 6 (Rosbanagber

or Rosmanagher, Co..
Clare, St.Cocbea).

— Mac B arch end, 11.
Ruscaig, 9, 25 (Rooskey, in va-
rious counties).

Seanlis, 33.
Saighir, 5.
Sencometa, 9.
Sendunia, 5.
Senbotha, 7.
Sccellig, 29.
Sluan, 23.
Sleibhte, 1, 15.
Sliabh Beatha, 11.
Siiabh Bladhma, 24.

— Callen, 36.

— Cullen, 24.

— Dionn, 35.

— Eibhlinne, 22 (Sheve

Phelim, Co.Tipperary )

— Guaire, 16, 32.

— Liacc, 1 (Slieveleague, Co.

Donegal).

— Mairge, 34 (Sleeve Ma-

rague, Queen's Co.)
Sligi, 22 (Sligo).
Snaimh luthair, 11,21,23 (Snaw-

logher or Slanore, Co.

Cavan).
Strath iren, 28.
Suird, 15 (Swords).

Taichtig, 4.

Tamlacht, 1,2, 9. 13, 18, 21,24
27.

— Baircbi, 1.

— an humail, 25.

— uglaidh, 8, 19.
Tatnna gbe, 19, 27.

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Teampul Rath, 34.
Tethbadh,31 (Teffia, Westmeath)
Thergadh, 26.
Thelaigh Ualann, 5, 22.
Thilaigh in denn, 32.
Thalincht, 14.
Tigh Airennain, 2.

— Bretan, 11.

— Collain, 9 (Stackallan;.

— Mac Dioraa, 36.

Tigh na comairce, 27 (near Lif-
ford, Co. Donegal).

— na ngortig, 5.

— na manach, 6.

— Sacra, 24.

— Scuthin, 17.

— Tua, 30.

— Talain, 6.

— Ultan, 13, 17.

Tiprat fachtna, 23 (Tibraghny,
Co. Kilkenny).

— 083, 19.

— Mac Nenna, 32.
Tirdacraobh, 20.

— da glass, 1, 8, 23. 32.

— ross, 5.

— oenigh, 26.

— Bret

— im h. Meibh, 22.

— guaire, 34.
Toitoe, 28.

Trefoil, 34 (Trevet, Co. Meath)
Tuaidh mac cuu, 32.
Tuaim ati, 22.

— Dremain, 11.

— Leis, 31.

— Inthir, 35.

— Murcrairihe, 12.

— Noadh, 14.
Tuilein, 4.
Tulcha, 11.
Uachtar A chad h, 15.
Uisneach, 20 (Usn)agh Co. We*t-

meath.

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LIST OF PLACES

IDENTIFIED IN PRECEDING CATALOGUE.*

Aghalurchar, 15.
Annagh, 18.
Achamor, 19.
Athlea^ue, 21.
Annahilt, 24.
Achonry, 25.
Armagh, 26.
Ardbo, 6.
Assaroe, 9.
Ards, 11.
Ardmore, 12.
Antrim, 12.
Arran hies. 13.
Ardstraw, 13.
Aghaboe, 13.
Aghoole, 37.
Ardcolumb, 37.
Ardagh, 37.
Agbafarnhara, 38.
Aughrim, 42.
Asalyn, 42.
Annatrim, 42.
Aughnish, 42.
Ardskeagh, 42.

Bangor, 2.
Birr, 4.
Begery, 17.
Boffin, 43.
Boho, 38.
Breaffy, 38
Brimult, 38.
Ballymoon, 38.
Brigown, 38.

iClonkeen, 14.

Clonard, 15.

Clonenagh, 16.

Clonfad, 19.

Crumlin, 20.

Cloncurry, 23.

Clonfert mulloe, 24.

Carlow, 25.

Clonmacnoise, 26.

Clonmore, 25.

Clonbrony, 27.

Clones, 29.

Cloonoun, 2.

Cong. 2.

Clogher, 2.

Cork, 3.

Clane, 3.

Clonsast, 3.

Clonfert, 4.

Cloonbnrren, 4.

Clontibret, 5.

Commagh, 6.

Clontivrin, 7.

Clonalvey, 7.

Conry, 7.

Clondalkin, 10.

Clanc, 40.

Clooncraft, 40.

Clongesh, 40.

Clongefin, 40.

Clooney, 40.

Clonleigh, 40.

Clonmellon, 40.

Clonmore, 40.

Clontarf, 40.

* Should any reader identify other localities, the in
fully received by the Publisher for the next edition of

Cloyne, 40.
Connor, 40.
Clonkeen, 40.
Cieenish, 39.
Camus, 38
Castle Kevin, 38.
Carndonagh, 38.

Dulane, 4.

Derryraore, 7.

Durrow, 9.

Donnycomper, 10.

Donaghmore, 14.

Dungarvan, 16.

Derrynavlan, 16.

Derryloran, 19.

Derry, 22.

Devenish, 24.

Drogheda, 43.

Drumiskin, 43.

Duleek, 32.

Derryvult, 37.

Diamor, 16.

Delgany, 23.

Dalkey, 4l.

Dysart, 18.

Donnybrook, 22.

Dunshaughlin, 36.

Douth, 28.

Drumbo, 10.

Drumcullen,3.

Drumiskin, 42.

Drumlane, 42.

Dromore, 42.

Drumsnagbt, 42.

formation will be thank-
this Catalogue.

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LIST

OF PLACES IDEXTI

FIED

Doon, 42.

Emly, 43.
Emlagh, 43.
Ennereilly, II.
Errigal, 37.
Ejlagh, 2.

Freahford, 18.
Fiddown. 24.
Forgney, 25.
Ferns, 1.
Fore, 1.
Feighcullen, 3.
Finmoy, 9.
Finglass, 13.
Fenagh, 42.
Faughard, 24.

Granard, 17.
Gortcrib, 24.
Gtcndaloch, 5.
Galloon, 7.
Glenry, 8.
Glanussen. 12.
Glenavry, 43.
Glassnevin, 42.
Glenaely, 42.
Glimiaconagh, 19.

Hare island, 12.
Holywood, 37.

Inisheny, 43.
Iniskeen, 43.
Inishkeel, 43.
Inchidoney, 43.
Inishowen, 43.
Inchiquin, 43.
Inishmahee, 45.
Iniscealtra, 18.
Inismac, saint, 24.
Iniscourcey, 3.
Inisbofin, 7.

Iniscrone, 10.
Iniscloghran, 12.

Killeigb, 15.
Kilgobnet, 17.
Kilcullen, 21.
Kilglinn, 24.
Kilmodan, 25.
Killala, 25.
Killanv, 27.
Kildalkey, 28.
Killugh, 28.
Kildare, 30.
Killyman, 1.
Kinsale, 3.
Kilbarry, 3.
Kilasbuigbrone, 4.
Kildalkey, 4.
Kilroot, 7.
Kilmainbam, 8.
Kilmanagh, 13.
Killeshin, 43.
Kinsaley, 39.
Kinloch, 39.
Kilbarry, 40.
KelU, 37.
Kiloolash. 38.
Killare. 38.
Killard, 38.
Kilcullen, 38.
Kill St. Ann, 39.
Killoe, 39.
Kilgobinet, 39.
Killamery, 39.
Killucan, 39.
Kilnamanagh, 39.
Kilmude, 39.
Kilmolasb, 39.
Kilmore, 39.
Kilanare, 39.
Kilroe, 39.
Kilroot, 39.
Kileshan, 39.
Kilteel, 39.

Kiltoon, 39.
Kiltalten, 39.

Lougb Derg, 1.
Lindisfarne, 1.
Lis more, 44.
Little island, 3.
Lough Raru or, 7.
Leighlin, 4.
Lynally. 7.
Lough Erne, 12.
Lough Gara, 17.
Liffey, valley of, 18.
Lough Ouel, 19
Lusk, 20.

Lough Mac Nien,21.
Lee mokee vogue, 23.
Louth, 23.
Latteragh, 26.
Lorra, 26.
Lough Derg, 27.
Lough Sheeling, 27.
Lough Neagh, 28.
Lough Melvin, 28.
Laragh Bryan, 43.
Leckin, 44.
Laughel, 44.
Lavey, 44.
Leitrim, 44.

Moyne, I.
Mucinish, 2.
Moville, 2.
Magheraglin, 7.
Mayo, 7.
Monahincha, 8.
Moy, 13.
Moygoish, 18.
Mothil, 21.
Mungret, 24.
Monasterboice, 24.
Moville, 28.
Moydoo, 44.
Moylagh, 41.

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Mostrem, 44.
Meelick, 44.
Moybologue, 44.

Nurney, 42.

Partry, 45.

Roscrea, 2.
Reachrainn. 7.
Rathdowney, 10.
Rathnew, 14.
Roscarberry, 14.
Rathurd, 30.
Rahin, 45.
Rosa more, 45.
Russagh.45.
Rosbanagher, 45.
Rooskey, 45.

Rath, 31.

Slieve Phelim, 45.
Slieve League. 45.
Snawtogher, 45.
Swords, 15.
Stackallen, 45.
Shanbo, 7.
Strangford, 13.
Slieve Beatha, 11.
St. David's, 11.
Sletty, 1.
Slieve Gory, 16.
Slane, 23.
Slieve Bloom, 24.
Slieve Gullion, 24.
Saggart, 24.
Spike Island, 26.
Skelligs, 29.

Scattery, 28.
Seirkeiran, 5.

Teffia, 45.
Tybroughney, 45.
Trevet, 45.
Tallaght, 1.
Trim, t.
Terry glass, 1.
Tyfarnbam. 2.
Tehallan, 6.
Tescoffin, 17.
Taptoe, 30.

Waterford, 10.
Wexford, 11.

Ustiey Hill, 20.
Upper Island, 2

CONTRACTIONS UBKD IN FOLLOWING PAGES.

A.A. Colgan's Acta Sanctorum Hiherniae; Mart. Tal.
Martyrology of Tallaght ; Mar. Gor. Marianus (Maelmuire)
O'Gorman, Abbot of Louth, A.D., 1167; Cal Cas. Calendar of
Cashel, A.D. 1030, circiter; Car, Mag. Charles Maguire, Dean of
Clogher and Canon of Armagh, A.D. 1498; Mart. Dung, Martyr-
ology of Donegal, alias O'Clery's Calendar, seventeenth century;
JEnghu* a metrical calendar of principal Irish saints, composed by
iEnghus, compiler of Martyrology of Tallaght. Not one of those
martyrologies nor any part of them has yet been published. To
supply the want in some way, the following compilation from
r-lgan was made many years ago, at the suggestion of the lau
William Elliot Hudson. Cujus animse propitietur Deua. Amen.

He was received into the Catholic Church in January 1853. He

had attended mass punctually after the death of his brother, the

Dean of Armagh, and announced to the Rev. Mr. Wall,C.C, Cork,

his wish to become a Catholic in November 1852.

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For contractions we preceding page.)
JANUARY.

1.— S. Fanchea (ltoinchea, Funchea), V, of the royal house of
Orgiei. Born at Rath more (now Rathmore), near Clogher. Founded
an establishment at Rosairther (now Rossorry), on the hanks of
Lough Erne, Co. Fermanagh, where her festival was kept on this day
Mar. Gor. Mart. Tal. She was sister to the great St. Enda of the
Isles of Arran. A.A. S.S. p. 3. n. 3. 10. p. 4, n. 24.

S. Ernan (Ernin, Ernoc, Mernoc, and hy Adamnan, Ferreolus, the
etymology being the same), monk. Buried in the church of Druim
Thoma (now Drumhome), in the diocess of Raphoe. Mart. Tal.
and Doneg. A. A. S.S. p. 9, n. 2, 6, 11. A.D. 640 cir. He
certainly lived with St. Adamnan and St. Columba, of whom
he was nephew according to Colgan. The martyrologists call him
"son of Eogan."

2— S. Scutin (Scothin), disciple of St. David of Wales. Of
noble family and cousin of St. Ailbe. Founded a church at Teach
Schotin (now Tiscoffin), in the mountains of Slievemargy, Co.
Kilkenny. Mar. Tal. Aengus. Mar. Gor. Car. Mag. Cal. Cas. A.D.
520, 570, cir. A. A. S.S. p. 10, n. 7, 9, 13.

3. S. Fintan of Dunbleische, Doon, twelve miles east of Limerick,
Still vividly remembered in the County of Limerick . his well
Toberfintan, still visited. Of a noble family of Ara-cliach. Dis-
ciple of St. Comgall, of Bangor. Founded a church at Kill-Fiontain
near Tulach Bennain. Received from S. Columba the town and
church of Kill-Maitoige. Car. Mag. et omnes domest. A. A.
S.S. p. 13, n. 4, 11, 12, 14, 19, p. 14, n. 24, 25. A.D. 560 cir.

His brother, Fionnlughaith, was honoured at Dunbleische on Jan.
5. Aengus, Mar. Gor. Tal. Cah. Mag.

4 S. Aidus (Aedh, jEdinus), Abb. and Bishop of Kildare. Of

the royal family and, according to some accounts, King of Leinster,

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A.D. 638, Mar. Gor. Mart. Tal. who commemorate on May 10.
another Aedb., whether the same or not uncertain. A.A. S.S. p.
14, n. 1,3,4.

5 — S. Cera (Cier, Ciar, Cyra), born of a noble family of Muskerry.
Founded a nunnery called from her name Kilkere, a few miles S.W.
of the city of Cork, where she rests and her memory was honoured.
A.D. 679, A.A. S.S. p. 15, n. 6, 13, cap*tiv. She had resided
some time at Techtelle in Co. Westmeath, a place which St.
Fintan Munnu assigned to her ; " Go," said she tell the venerable
old man of Christ to give me some place where I may serve God
with my daughters. But the man of God (Fintan Munnu) hearing
this, said " Brethren this is not the place of our resurrection ; let
us resign it and our labour to the virgins of God, and take nothing
with us but the necessaries of life." Vita S. Fin. Mun. Mar. Gor.
and Car. Mag. state that she rests in the church of Mayhascar
(A.A. S.S. p. 15, n. 13), but. whether that is the same as Kilchree
Colgan could not decide. She is also honoured on the 16th of
October.

6. — S. Dima (Diroan dubh, from his dark hair or complexion),
Bishop of Connor. Of the Dalcassian royal line. Styled in the
life of St. Colman Elo. c. 19. " Omnium ecclesiarum Hiberniae
adjutor et protector. 1 ' Arfistinguished writer. He was one of the
bishops to whom the letter of the Roman clergy was addressed on
the Paschal question. St. Dima died A.D. 659. A.A. S.S. p. 16,
c. iii. p. 17, n. 11. Mar. Tal. Mar. Gor. Car. Mag.

7. — S. Kentigerna (Coentigerna), V. daughter to Cellach, King
of Leinster. Retired to Scotland with her son, Foilan. Rests in
the Isle of Inchelroche, in Loch Lomond. A. A. S.S. p. 22. A.D.
728. See Jan. 9th jEngus, Mar. Gor. and Car. Mag. have Kenti-
gern at 23 Mar. A.A. S.S. p. 22, n. 4.

Colgan gives at this day the acts of St. Cedd, bishop of London,
who had studied in the Irish monastery, Lindisfarne, under St.
Finan.

8. — S. Erard, Bishop of Ardagh, resigned his see, resided for a
considerable time in St. Hidulph's monastery in the Vosges moun*

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tains, preached the Gospel to the pagans in Bavaria, baptized St.
Odilia, daughter to Etico, Duke of Germany under Childeric II.
Returned to Ratisbon where he died and rests* A.D. 700 cir. Can-
onized by Leo IX. in 1052, Lanig. vol. iii. p. 105. et seq. col.
A.A. S.S. p. 22, et seq. in which there are six lives of this saint
with copious notes.

Boliandus derires the name Erard from the Teutonic root
Er, honor, and Hard, great or strong. But Col;an (A.A. S.S. p.
28, n. 4), besides giving as plausible an Irish etymology (er noble,
ard high or great), shows that it was a usual proper name
among the Irish, Erard, a man deeply versed in Irish history and
other branches of learning was secretary to King Malachy, A.D.
1096. Some of Erard's works were extant in Colgan's time.
Clonard is also derived from Cluain iraird, the Cluain of Erard,
but see Col. p. 28, n. 4.

8.— S. Albert (Ailve), Bishop of Eraly, brother to St. Erard,
whom he accompanied to Germany, thence to Rome. On Erard's
return to Germany Albert went to Jerusalem, where he lost Gilla-
patrick one of his fellow pilgrims. Arriving at Ratisbon a short
time after his brother's death, died atid was buried in the same
tomb. Raderus S.J. Bavaria Sancta, torn. 1, p. 63, who quotes a
host of authorities, gives the following : .

A tenebris <fkotq<t Alberte trahit tua patria nomen

Quamvis es, patriae sol hierarcha tuae

Et radios totum spargis peregrinus in orbera

Quid nisi ccelestis sol tua vita facit ?

Hidulphi germanus eras, germanus Erhardi,

Tertius ambobus non pietate minor.

Hidulphum rapuit Trevir, duo Boica texit

Boica nos divos hos rapit, hosce parit.
* The Augsburg Breviary marks the spot "In inferior! monlalium mono-
Mcrio." Conrad, A.D. 1340, canon of Ratisbon, in his life of St. Erard. says
** Illustrious igitur supra dictis, regnantibus Francorum reglbus, et prsecipue
serenissimo Romanorum Augusto Carolo Magno — floruerunt in area tenipes-
tatis fluida? et procellopae vita? viri sancti in Hibernia que major Scotia
dicebatur, et se disperscrant in numero multo per omnia Kranciseet Germanise
loca et hinc ad alia terreni orbis clymata, ut lumlne ttdei illuminarent popu-
lum tenebratum." — A.A. S.S p. 30.

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S. Ergnata, V. said to be grand-daughter of Finchad, who granted
Armagh to St. Patrick. Honoured in the church of Cluanidaen,
a district of Dalaradia called Fiodhbhaidh. and in the church of
Tamlachtbo. /Engus, Mar. Gor. Car. Mag. Mar. Dung, on this
day and 31st of October. A.A. S.S. p. 42, n. 2, 9, 10, 11,

S. Molibba (Libba), Bishop of Glendaloch, son of Coeltigerna,
sister to St. Kevin, year uncertain. ^

9.— S. Finan, a monk of Hy, succeeded St. Aidan in Lindisfarne,
where he built a church of oak ; baptized Peada prince of the
Middle Angles, amongst whom he sent Cedd, Add, Bitti, and his
countryman Diuma, to preach. Consecrated Diuma Bishop of the
Middle Angles and of Mercia ; baptized Sigebert, King of the
East Saxons, and with his assistance and the ministry of Cedd,
restored the faith in the see of St. Melitus ; consecrated Cedd
bishop of the East Saxons. Distinguished in our native annalists
(who all say he was Irish), from other Finans by the epithet
Saxonictis. A.A. S.S. p. 46, et seq. Lan. vol. ii. p. 428, who com-
plains justly of the term u Scottish monks," applied by Lin gar d to
Finan and his countrymen. St. Finan honoured in England on
Feb. 17 ; in Ireland on this day.

9. S. Foilan (Felan, Foelan), Abb. son of St. Kentigem, grandson
of Kellach (Kelleus) King of Leinster. The Scottish martyrologists
commemorate on this day a St. Foelan, whose arm, enshrined in a
silver case, was carried before the army of Robert Bruce to Ban-
nockburn. A.A. S.S. p. 49. Alban Butler in die. Camerarius
expressly calls him son of Kentigerna, daughter to the King of
Leinster. All our martyrologists commemorate on this day a St.
Foelan, whose memory was honoured in Cluain mecsna, a church,
in Fertullagh, County Westmeath, and who was, according to
Colgan, the St. Foelan buried in Straphilline, Scotland, to whose
prayers the old Scottish historians attributed the victory of Ban-
nockburn. By the Scotch accounts, Foelan was baptized by a
Bishop Ibar, and educated by an Abbot Mundus, both of whom
Colgan said he could prove at April 23rd and October 21st, were
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10. — Translation of S. Wasnulpb,an Irish bishop: died in a
monastery at Condatum in Hannonia, where his memory is honoured
on three days, 10th January, 27th March, and 1st of October.
Molanns, Vernnleus, Ferrarius apud, A A. S.S. p. 50, 51.

S. Diermit (Diarmuid, Diarmuitt), Ab. of In is- clot ran (now
Quakers island), an island in the Shannon, Longhree. Mar. Gor.
calls him bishop. Was of the Hy Piachrach family, a friend of St.
Seuanus. "Sancto Senano socius: cui nomen Diermitius: cujus
constructa cellula : est in Clothranna insula: et utrorumque eel
lulae : uno cinguntur flumine, Vit. Met. S. Senani. Colgan had a
work of St. Diermits, written in old and elegant metre : it was like
a psalter and contained a form of daily prayer, in which fifty-two
of the principal saints are mentioned, some of whom, however, as
St. Adaranan, lived after St. Diermit. " There was an ivory
statue of St. Dermuit in his church at Inis-clothran." It was
buried long before Colgan's time (olim) for safety sake, but had
been lately raised by a man, whose name he would not mention,
** Cujus nomen ego tacco ne statuailla veniat in manus-omnia sacra,
in istis regionibus demolicntiura." A. A. S.S. p. 52, n. 17. 18
Mart, omnia domes.

S. Thomianus (Thomienus, Thomenus, Thomanus), Archbishop
of Armagh, to whom the Roman clergy wrote on the Paschal
question. Reigned thirty-six years. A.D. 660, Mart. Tal.

f^F* At this day Colgan gives the acts of Ethne the Fair, and
Fedelmia the Rosy, daughters to Leogaire, and converted by St.
Patrick at the fountain of Cruachan ; but their names are not found
in any calendar.* A. A. S.S p. 56.

11. — Suibneus, Suinneus (Suibhne), Abb. of Hy, succeeded
Segienus, A.D. 651, died 654 or 656. Mart. Tal., Mar. Gor, Car.
Mag.

S. Laidgennus, C, son of Baithi Buadaeh (i.e. victorious) a

* The tradition it that they were baptized, professed nuns, and died imme-
diately after receiving the Blessed Eucharist. They were buried In a church
call -d Seann domnach in Maghoe /now Shankill near Elphin); tlu-ir retics
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monk of Clonfert Molua, while St. Lactan was superior. Rests in
that monastery and was next after the founder St. Luan the most
revered. A.D. 660, A.A. SS. p. 58, n. 8, 9. ^Engus and all the
Mart.

12. — S. Curaian (Cuiinin, Cumein), bishop. In the monastery
of Bobbio (founded by St. Columbanus), near the altar of St.
Attala, the following inscription in Lombard characters is found on
a tomb :

Hie sacra beati membra Cumeani solvuntur.
Cujus coelum penetrans anima euro angelis gaudet
] ste fuit magnus, dignitate, genere, forma.
Hunc mittit Scotia, fines ad italicos senem,
Locatur et Bobbio, Domini constrictus amore.
• . . . • •

Ac pater egregie potens intercessor existe
Pro gloriosissimo Luitprando rege, qui tuam
Pretioso lapide tumbam decoravit devotus.

Cumian resided at Bobbio during the last seventeen years of his
life. From what part of Ireland he came is not known. He
died on the 19th of August, aged 95 years and 4 months, and was
buried during the reign of Luitprand, which lasted until A.D.
744. Colgan marks him at this day, because it is the first on
which a Cumian occurs. Our national calendars do not mark
any Cumian, or feast of Cumian, on the 19th of August. A.A.
S.S., p. 58, Lan. vol. iii. p. 171.

13. — S. Theoconna, bishop. Mart. Tal. Connan of the isle of
St. Patrick. Mar. Gor. Mochonna of the isle of St. Patrick.
Car. Mag. and Mart. Doneg. Different forms, according to
Colgan, of the same name. Conna, Conda, Dochonna, Mochonna,
Teochonna, bishop of the Isle of Man. But though Jocelin states
that a promontory in the Isle of Man was called Inispatrick, and
Camerarius and Scotch authorities place a Conon, and Monol.
Genealog. a Mochonoc, bishop of Sodor or Man, it does not appear
certain that the St. Conon of Inispatrick in our roartyrologies this
day, was bishop of Man. See Lan., vol. i., p. 303 et seq.

&£T Colgan had an Irish poem, by Arthulius, a distinguished

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poet, in praise of Magnus, son of Godfrey, King of Man. A A.,

S.S., p. 59-60.

13.-S. Aiiild (Aiiicll, Oileal, Oileald, Ailillus, Olildus. Helias),
Archbishop of Armagh, of the family Clanbrassil, in County Ar-
magh, succeeded A D. 513, died 526. Mart. Tal. : Mar. Gor.:
Car. Mag. M irt. Donegal. A.A- S.S., p. 62, n. 3, 12, 14, 19.

Aiiild II., successor of preceding, and of the same family, is
commemorated in same authorities, July 1st.

15. — S. Ita (Ite, Ide, Ida, Mida, Mita), V., foundress and abbess
of Cluain-crediul (now Killeedy, a beautiful old church), in Hv-
Conaill, County Limerick. Of the noble family of the Desies or
Nandesi, County Waterford. Retired, after her profession, to the
foot of the mountain of Luachra, where she was soon joined by
many virgins. Highly revered by princes and people of Hy Co-
naill; consulted by Brendan of Clonfert, Mocboemoc of Kilmokee-
vogue, and other eminent prelates. Adopted as patroness of Hy-
conaill. Mar. Gor. : Mar. Tal. : Car. Mag. and Aengus, thus, in
Irish, " Passa multas coutiouo cruciatus, usa multas abstinentias,
lucerna ardens faeminarum MomoniaB." 44 Quae S. Bngidae, meritis
et rooribus nullatenus inferior videtur." Vita, apud Col. C. xxxiii.
Alcuin, in one of his minor poems on Iiish virgins, has :

Virgmibus sacris praesen? haec ara dicata est.

Quarum clara fuit Scotorum fama per urbes

Brigida, 1 Samtna, 2 Fome, 3 Chrone, 4 Scnire,* Ita, 6 Fidelia. 7

16. — S. Fursa (Fursaeus, Fursey), founder of the monastery of
Lagny, in the Archdiocess of Paris, on the Marne between Paris
and Meaux. Patron of Peronne in Picardy. Son of Fintan, prince
of South Munstcr, and of Gelges, daughter of the Hy Briuins.
Educated at Inisquin (Inis-ua cuinn), an island in Loch Orbs en
(Lough Corrib). Erected an establishment near Lough Corrib. at
Rathmat, now Killfursa. Resigned, and preached thiough Ireland
during 10 years. Retired to England, A.D. 637, built a monastery
at Cnobheresburg, near Burgh Castle, Suffolk, granted to him by

i Feb. 1. a Dec. 19. 5 Sept. 17 4 July 7. » Mar. 25. « Jan. 6.
f Dec. 9. A. A. 8.8. p. 66, et seq. n. 20.

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Sigebert, King of the East Angles. Leaving his brother Poillan at

the head of this monastery, and his brother Ultan in a hermitage

in the same province, he went to Franc*, and received from Clovis

II., King of Neustria, the grant of Lagny. Returning to his brother,

died at Macerias (Mazeroeles), in Ponthieu, A D. 650. His body

removed to a new church in Peronne (where he was building a

monastery— Alban Butler), was left at toe porch foi some days,

then buried near the altar, whence it was removed four years later

to a chapel in the same church, to tbe east of the altar, where it

was before the Revolution. A A. SS., p. 75 et seq., especially p.

87, n. 6, 7, 14, p. 90, n. 23 et seq Cal. Cas p. 95. Lan. vol. li.

p. 448. His memory honoured on six d fferent days. Jan. 16

most probably his Natalis, and, among others, Sept. 17, on which

there was a translation of his relics in presence of St. Louis of

France and of many bishops. A.A. S.S., p. 98.*

Gratulantur a divino
Visitati peregrino
Brito, Saxo, Gallia.
Summa docet, calcat ima
Neque rude propter clyma
Rudis est in gratia.

Prosa de S. Fursseo.

S. Foillan (Foelan, Faelan, ), M., brother to St. Fursa,

honoured on this day (Inventio), Mart. Tal. : Mart. Dung. ; on
Sept. 3 (Translation), Mart. Anglic: and Ocl. 31 (Martyrdom),
Mar. Tal., Cal. Cas., Mar. Gor., Car. Mag., A.A. S.S., p. 105.

S. Dunchad O'Braoin (Donnchad, Donatus), abbot of Clonmic-
noise. Of the Hyniall. Born in Breghmuine, now Brawney, Co.
Westmeath. Became a monk in Clonmacnoise, then an anchoret,
but afterwards abbot. Retired to Armagh, where he died and
rests, A.D. 987, Mart. Dung. Tigernach, the annalist, was of St.
Dunchad's kindred. [Donchad, the last Irish saint that raised
the dead to life : Tigernach.]

Colgan proves at this day that the invasions of the Danes did
not interrupt the succession of holy and learned men in Ireland.

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He had in his possession a complete history of the Danish wars,
from 812 to 1013, entitled C05A&I) 5Aoi&bel tie SAilUibl). It is
in the book of Li&more, but imperfect. Various bad modern copies.

S. Moelisa Brolochan (O'Brclchan), Conf. Born in Inishowen,
educated in the monastery of Bothconuis, in the rliocess of Derry.
Wrote many works extant in Colgan's time, A.D. 1086. Mar.
Gor., Mart. Dung.

17. — S. Ultan r son of Etectacuis, honoured in the church of
Cuilchorra, in Cera, Connaught. Mar. Gor., Mart. Tal., Mar. Dung.
A.A. S.S., p. 109.

t&F Colgan, at this day, gives the acts of a St. Ultan, an Irish-
man, in the monastery of Lindisfarne : 41 qui polite atque concione
libros sacros ad ccenobii usum exscribere solebat." Harpsfeld,
Hist. Ecc. Saec Nonum, c 14.

18. — S. Nennius, Nennidius (Nenr.idh, Nainnidh), Abb. and B. of
Domnach Mor Muigne Ene.* and abbot of Ius Muigh sam : Inis-
macsaint in Lough Erne. Disciple of St. Fmnian of Clonard. One
of the twelve patriarchs of Ireland St. Kieran of Clonmacnoise
resided with him some time in Lough Erne, A.D. 534. Lan. vol.
ii., p. 233, Mart. Tal., Mar. Gor., Car. Mag., Mart. Dung. But
of these, some mark his festival on January 16. Surnamed La-
oibhdearc or Lamhdearg, to distinguish him from —

Nennius Lamb glan (pure hand), converted by St. Bridget*
whom he attended at her death. The Latin hymn in her honour,
" Christ us in nostra insula/ 7 is said to be from his pen. He is
styled, '•films Ethacn de partibus niulae." His history is very con-
fused. Car. Mag has the following, on Nennid of Inisraacsaint :
ad zr&o] at) cearpoc aiwi Nirjn|orj rnrjAc u * lA05A||ie cejJ>
ijeArob : sona rorjAncrjujbl) eljo tm*x CAcbAcb mrjAjch rofyc 2lc&b<*
His beil, Cloc Nennj&ht covered with gold and silver, was kept in
Inismacsaint, to Colgan's days. It was regarded as a most precious
relief A A S.S., p 114. c. xii., p, 115. n 16,17, 18 19,20,22.

* Now Donagh Glebe, in the Moy territory, south side of the river Erne.

t It is a quadrangular bell of bronze, now in the museum if Castle Caldwell,
near Belleek, in the County of Fermanagh,

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18. — S. Deicolus, Deicola (Dichul), abbot, founder of the mo-
nastery of Lure or Lutra, three leagues from Luxeuil, where he
lived under St. Columbanus. Uterine brother of St. Gail. His
name is often given in baptism, in Franche Comtek Deel or Diey
for males, Deele for females. First settled near a well, w hich was
thence called after him ; then built two oratories in honour of SS.
Peter and Paul, and, by the munificence of Clothaire II., a monas-
tery, whose abbots became princes of the empire. Vita apud A. A.
S.S., p. 118-120. " Deicolus," said Columbanus, one day, " why
are you always smiling ?" 41 Because/' he answered, " no one can
take my God from me."

20. — S. Fechin (two eccA, CaL Cas.), abbot of Fore, County of
Westmeath. Born at Bile Fechin, now Billy, in the barony of
Leney, County Sligo. Of royal descent, educated by St. Nathy of
Achonry. Founded the monastery of Fore, converted the pagans
in the island of Imraagh, now Omey, built a monastery there, and
in Ardoilen, and many others, Cong, &c. Had great influence
with the kings and princes of his day. A friend of Uitan of Ard-
braccan. Fin tan Munnu of Taghmon, Mochua of Ardslaine, and
Aileran the wise, who, according to Colgan, wrote his life. Died
of the conall buidhe, the great plague, A.D., 664. Mart. Tal.
Car. Mag., Cal. Cas., Mart. Dung., and jEngus. A.A. S.S. p,
140, n. 2, p. 142, 39.

20. — S. Molaga (Molochus : Lochen), Abb. Born in Fermugia,
now Fermoy, iu County Cork. Founded a monastery at Tulach-
mhin, where he was honoured, as also at Lannbeachair, now Lam-
beecher,* in Fingal. Lannbeachaire is said to derive its name
from a swarm of bees of the same kind St. Modomnoc had brought
over from Wales. During a visit to some part of the diocess of
Connor, forgot his bell at a place thence called teAfiroan An
cblujs. A.A. S.S., p. 145, et seq., p. 150, n. 20, 24, p. 151, n.
32, 33, 34, but especially for the titles, p. 149, n. 19. iEngus and
all Mart, nation.

21. — S. Malcallan (Maccalin-lan), Abb., accompanied St. Cadroe

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to France, founded a monastery in the forest Theorascensis near
the river Oise, on the frontiers of Hainault, in the diocess of Laon.
Embraced the Benedictine habit in Gorzia, a monastery in the
diocess of Mete, was appointed superior of another monastery,
Walciodorus, now Vassor, near the Meuse between Dinant and
Givet. Resigned Vassor to St. Cadroe, returned and died in his
monastery on the Oise, where he rests in the church of St. Michael.
A.D. 978, A.A. S.S., p. 152. Lan. vol. iii. p. 401. Visited the
shrine of St. Fursa, before he settled at St. Michael's, which is not
far from Peronne.

22. — S. Co) roan of Lismore, Abb. Bishop (Colmoc, Mocholmoc,
from Colum). Born in Ibh-Liathain (the country of the O'Lehans)
between Cork and Youghal, of the illustrious house Hua Beogna :
monk and then abb. and Bishop of Lismore, where he gave the
monastic habit to Turlough, King of Thomond, father of St.
Flannan (patron of Killaloe), and direct progenitor of Brian
Boroihme. 44 Nam, says the hagiolist, 44 de stirpe illius descendit
famosu8 ille B nanus, de cujus posteritate quid am adhuc super
Hiberniam totam regnaverunt, et adhuc alios regnaturos spera-
mus." A.D. 703, jEngus and all Mart. Nat. A.A. S.S., p. 154, 155.

23. — S. Maimbodus (according to some, Maingolus,or Maingol),
a common name among the Irish, honoured in the diocess of
Besancon on this day. A noble Scot, a countryman of Columbanus,
went on a pilgrimage to the holy places on the continent. After
praying in St. Peter's church in the village of Domnipetra, eight
miles from Besancon, was killed outside the village; was buried
in that church and thence removed, A.D. 900, to Montbelliard by
Berengarius, Bishop of Besancon ; year of his death unknown.
44 Chifflet Saussaye," Albertus Miraeus, and the old archives of the
church of Besancon, thus : 44 et quoniam hos aliosque (Ireneus and
others), transmisit Grsecia dicamus breviter aliquos ex Scotia:
Columbanum virum illustrissimum non reticebimus per quern tibi
Burgundia maximus in Dei vinea accrevit fructus ; in te namque
plurima coenobia aedificavit, collegia monachorum multiplicavit,
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fessores tibi reliquit. Post bos vero ccleberrimum confessorem
predicamus Anatolium in Scotia, itidem genitum, lumen tibi 4
Domino distinctum : verum ne sermo noster in his protrahatur
longius, ad B. Maimbodium exordium reducamus." A. A. S.S., p.
156, c. vi.

24. — S. Cadoc (Docus), Abb., son of Gundloeus, King of South
Britain, and Gladusa, daughter of Bracan, an Irish prince; con-
temporary and relative of St. David of Wales. Educated by St.
Thaddeus, an Irishman who kept the great school of Caerwent in
Monmouthshire. Founded a religious establishment, Lancarvan in
Glamorgan, near the Severn, three miles from Cowbridge. Had for
a time Gildas as his assistant, and among the most distinguished
of his disciples, St. Can ice of Achadbo, patron of Kilkenny, A.D.
470. A.A. S.S., p. 15S, 159, Lau. vol. i, 489, 490. Honoured
in Vienne, Brittany, Sept. 21.

1^ Colgan fears Cadoc may be the same as Cadan or Ceddan,
because the diminutive ad and oc are the same in sense, Edan
Edoc; but Cedan is always called bishop.

25. — S. Eochad (Eochodius, Eoglodius), one of the twelve asso-
ciates of St. Columba in his apostleship to Scotland. Honoured
especially in Galloway. Mart. Anglic. Ferrarius, in Catal. Gen. and
Scotch writers, Lesley, Dempster, Buchanan : supposed by Colgan
to be the Eochad, surnamed Dalian, who wrote the life of St.
Columba. A.A. S.S., p. 163, 164, n. 1, 4.

25. S. Hia (la, and by Wilson, Ita), V. An Irish virgin, died in
Cornwall, where many chapels and other monuments are erected
in her honour. Mart. Anglic. From her, the little town St. lies,
and St. lies bay took their name. Camden. Followed Fingar or
Guigner an Irish prince, who fled to Brittany to avoid his father's
wrath, and returning home was bringing over 800 Christians, who
were all put to death, on their way, by Iheodoric. Fingar 's
memory is honoured in Vannes, Dec. 13. A.A. S.S., p. 164.

I^T On this day Colgan gives the acts of Paul, a hermit, dis-
ciple of St. Patrick and of St. Fiech, and afterwards a hermit on a
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traditionary voyage. But Paul's name does not occur in the
martyrologies. Paul or Paulinus of Killmona, occurs in Mart.Tal.
on 21st of May. A.A. S.S., p. 167, n. 1.

27.— S. Naal (Naaile, Naile, Noele), Naalius, Natalis Abb.
of Inverneal, now Inver, in the barony of Banagh, in Donegal,
where be i9 vividly remembered : honoured there and in Killnajle
now Kilnawley, corrupted Kinawley, in Breffney, in the county of
Cavan [the parish extends into Fermanagh,] and in Devenish. A
part of his bell still preserved among the O'Dromes, A.D. 564.
Mart. Dung. Mart. Tal., Mar. Gor., Car. Mag., some of whom
make him the same as

S. Naal, abbot of Kilmanagh, drochid in Ossory, county Kil-
kenny, on the borders of Tipperary, son of iEngus, first Christian
King of Munster, preceptor of St. Senanus, honoured in Kilmanagh
on July 31st. Killenaule takes his name. His was one of the
chief primitive Irish schools.

In visione igitur

Hoc Abbati pnecipitur
* • * « «

Ut Senanum novitium
Ad Abbatem eximium
Mittat, Nat alum, nomine.

Fuit enim tunc temporis
Fa ma Natali Celebris
Cum ingens congregatio
In ejus contubernio
Quinquaginta videlicet
Et centum fratrum degerit.

Vita Met, S. Senani. A.A. S.S.p. 173.

28. — S. Cannera, V. (Cunuera Cinnera) of a distinguished family

in Bentraighe, now Bantry, in Carberry, Co. Cork. Wished

to receive the last sacraments in Iniscathey from St. Senanus, who

refused to let her land. But she prayed,

Spero, ait in Dominum
Quod prius meura spiritum
])e bac carne ejiciat
Quam reverti faciat

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Nec mora, reddit spiritum, diemque clausit ultiroum, a fratribus
insolitae, celebrantur exequise. Vit. Met, S. SenanL Honoured ii
Iniscathey and other places, especially Killchuilin. A. A. S.S., p.
175, 176, n. 5.

29— S. Gildas, Abb. (Mar. Gor. iEngus and others) Gildas, bishop
and The Wise, Mart. Tal. The Nantz Breviary commemorates on
this day St. Gildas an Irishman. A. A. S.S., p. 176, 178, n. 9, 6,
but he is probably the same as

S. Gildas the Wise, or Badonicus, son of a British Lord,
educated in the monastery of St. lltutus, Glamorganshire; after-
wards studied in the Irish schools, and taught in Armagh ; sent a
bell to St. Brigid as a present, and was highly revered by the
second class of Irish saints ; met St. Brendan in Brittany. But
whether Gildas Badonicus be the same as Gildas the Albanian or
Gildas of the Irish Martyrologies on this day, or different from
both. See Lan. and Butler.

Gildas occurs in Irish Martyrologies on Nov. 4. A. A. S.S., p.
178, n. 1, but see especially, A.A. S.S., p. 199.

29. — S. Dalian, son of Forguill, of Maginia, and Massighe, slain
by pirates in Iniscoel, now Iniskeel, an island in the ocean, off
Bugellaigh, now Boyiagh, in Donegal, where he was buried by St.
Conall (surnamed Coel), from whom the island takes its name.
Honoured there and in Maginia, a church in the northern borders
of Westmeath, also in Kildallan a church in the diocess of Kilraora
and Disert Dallain, Tuloch Dallain, and Cluain Dallain, now don-
ation in Down, Ulster ; surnamed Dalian, or the Blind. Distin-
guished for his knowledge of natural history, and reputed author
of the celebrated " Ambra Coluim Cille," and a metrical eulogium
on St. Senanus, both of which were in Colgan's possession, but in
such an old dialect that he could not read them. The " Arubr*
i Coluim" was recited by Dalian at the great synod of Drumceat, in
Columba's presence. That synod was commemorated in Colgan's
days, by a great pilgrimage of all the adjoining districts to Drum-
cheat on the river Roe, near Newtownlimavaddy in the couuty
of Londonderry. A.A. S.S., p. 204, et seq. n. 12. 13, 15, et seq.

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30. — S. Anmichad, C. (Anmchad), of the Siol Anracbad, or
O'Maddens in the barony of Longford, county Galway, en the
banks ot the Shannon. A monk in the great monastery of Inis-
keltra, in Lough Ree. Ordered to prigiim, in punishment of some
alight d'sobedience, became a recluse in the Irish monastery at
Fuida, in Germarv, A.D. 1043, Mart. Anglic, Ferrahus. Thus
noticed m toe chronicle of Marianus the Irishman, who, sixteen
years later succeeded h.m in his ceil. Anno 1043. Amnichadus
Scotus, et incl jsus obiit, 3 Calend. Febr. In monasterio Fuldensi,
super ejus sepulchrum visa sunt lumina et psalmodia audita; super
quern ego Marianus, decern annis inclusus, super pedis ejus stans
quotidie missas cantavi." A. A S S., p. 205, 206.

30. — S. Eusebius (Eochad), monk of St. Gall and afterwards
recluse dunng thirty years on mount St. Victor in the Grisons.
Rhetia Cunensis, a countryman of St. GalL Honoured as a pro-
phet by the people, and so highly esteemed by King Charles the
Fat, that mount St. Victor, thenceforward, was granted to the
monastery of St GalL Arrived at St. Gall's, A.D. 84 1, died in 884.
Necrologium of St Gal! A.A, S.S., p. 107. Flourished in the a^e
to which Eric of Auxerre refers: ''Quid Hiberniam memorem
contempto peiagi disenmine, pene totam cum grege Phllosophorum
ad httora nostra migrantem ? Quorum quisquis peritior est, ultro
sibi indicit exilium.ut Soloinoni sapientissimo famuletur adestum.''

31. — S. jEdan (Aedoc, Oedoc, Maidoc, &c. &c, Aedanus), B.
patron of Ferns. Born of noble parents (the Hybruin of Breffney
and Amalgaidof Tyrawley),in Inis-breagh-muigh, now Inisbreaffy
in the parish of Templeport, barony of Tuliyhaw, and county Cavan,
borders of Leitrim. Given in his youth as hostage to Anmirus,
King of Ireland, A.D. 568, 570. Disciple and friend of St. David
of Wales, and according to some accounts, previously of St. Molaisse

in Devenish, Lough Erne. Returning from Killmuine, Menevia, '
landed at Ardlathran, county Wexford. Founded a church there,
and thirty ethers in Hy Kinsellagh (county Wexford), especially
Cluain more (now Clonmore), in Bantry barony. Founder and
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Cluainclaideach, now Cluancagh, in Hy Conaill, near Rathkeale.
Honoured in Druim leathan, now Drumlathan, three miles from
Belturbet, and in Rosinbher, now Rossinver, county Leitrim, in
Breffny, and also in Wales. Highly revered by the princes and
kings of his day, especially Brandubh, King of Leinster, whom he
encouraged to resist the invasions of the northern Irish 44 ait vir
Dei multi sancti servierunt Domino in terra vestra ; ite vos forti
animo ad certamen et nos omnes ibi eriraus vobiscum. In ilia iam
nocte, S. Moedoc extensis in oratione manibus stetit." Appointed
by general voice of king, clergy, and people, first Bishop of Ferns,
which was then made the chief see in Leinster. Patron of Hy
Kinsellagh, now county Wexford, and the Breffnys, and the
families O'Reilly and O'Rourke, having baptized Aidus Finn Prince
of Hy Bruin, from whom both descend. A. A. S.S. p. 208, et seq.
216, n. 5. 6, 7, 15, 16, p. 217, n. 29. Mart. Tai., Mar. Gor., Car.
Mag., Mart Dung. Calen Caa.

S. Aidan's first petition to God was, " that any person of
the royal line of Leinster, and especially of the descendants of
Brandubh, sitting in the chair of St. Maidoc, and dying in it,
should never go to heaven." In other words the liberty of
canonical succession for his see. A. A. S.S. p. 218, n. 33, 34.

S. Fintan, an Irish recluse in Rhetia, A.D. 810, being tempted
on St. Aidan's day to abandon his cell, heard the following words :
**¥l|ornr)c ]lo ocur in b«M&cljj rj] loose colore cele oe nembuc
no jreri rcnucbiu" Fintan remained in his cell.

FEBRUARY.

1. St. Bridget, abbessof Kildare, ommonly ranks second after St.
Patrick in national veneiation. In an exceedingly ancient poem,
attributed to St. Columba, she is styled second protector of Ire-
land , and the same title is given to her in the Proper Offices of
(he Irish Saints, published by Dr. Burke in 1767. Her more com-
mon title, however, is patroness of Leinster, especially of Kildare
and Leighlin ; and, in accordance with that usage, she is at the
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Leinster (co-extensive with the ancient kingdom of Leinstftr),
being patroness of the diocesses of Kildare and Leighlin,and having
an office of a higher rite in Dublin, Ferns, and Ossory than in the
rest of Ireland. She was born about the year 450, at Fothart, near
Dundalk, of noble and princely parents. Having received the veil
at an early age from St. Maccaile, at Usny Hill, formerly a great
haunt of the Druids, as being in the centre of Ireland, she was
appointed head of a numerous community there; and so great was
her reputation, that in a short time she was invited to found
branches of her order in all the provinces. Her chief establishment
was, however, at Kildare, whither she was invited by her friends
and other noble families of Leinster. In a grove of oak-trees, one
of which remained until the twelfth century, she established a
convent, which, though sometimes plundered by the Danes and
others, subsisted until the Reformation, having during many cen-
turies been the acknowledged head of numerous convents in every
part of Ireland. Not only the church of Kildare and the lands of
the convent, but the whole town which grew up around it, and
even the suburds, were long an inviolable sanctuary or city of
refuge. Special veneration of St. Bridget and tribute to her con-
vent, are prescribed in the old Irish laws as duties of the king of
Leinster. In all Ireland, to this day, the month of February is
called in Irish " the month of Bridget's festival," the festival being
on the first day of that month. She died in the year 525. Her
relics were preserved until the ninth century in a shrice near the
great altar in her church of Kildare, which was enriched with the
votive offerings of pilgrims, for whose accommodation, night and day
all the year round, that fire was kept blazing to which Moore
alludes in one of his Melodies. St. Bridget was specially revered
in Germany and Scotland ; some singular and beautiful custom
iu her honour being preserved in the latter country for more than
a century after the Reformation. In Ireland she was styled the
" Mary of Erin and one of her most ancient biographers exclaims,
"except Mary, who can compare in heaven with my Bride?' 1
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to hold the second place among women in the kingdom of Heaveu *
The Round Tower of Kildare, and the ecclesiastical ruins grouped
around it, attest the ancient splendor of St. Bridget's city.

S. Derlugdacha, Abb., Kildare, Mart. Tal. Mar. Gor., Car. Mag.
Mart. Dung./ A.D. 524. Honoured in Frisingia, Bavaria. A.S.
H. p. 230, n. 1, 5. Cunctarum fuerat formosior ilia sororuui.
Vita Met. S. Brig.

Prajcordius. Con in Corbie, Molan, Ferar, Canisius. Ex Scoto-
rum, genere. "Contemporary of Clovis I. and friend of St. Remi.
His relics were translated, A.D. 942, cir. to the church of St. Peter
in Corbie " postea autem fabricata auro et argento theca repositionis
suae ad ecclesiam S. Petri translatus " His name it is said was
not known before that translation. A.S.H. p. 232 —See Feb. 7.

S. Cinnia, A.D. 480, C. Mag. M. Tal. and Dung , M. Gor. Vene-
rated at Louth, took the veil in the convent of Drumducbhain
(near the cathedra! church of Clogher), then governed by Cectum-
bria the first Irish nun. A.S.H. p. 235, n. 11, 12, 14.

S. Brigid, sister of St. Donatus, Bishop of Fiesole. A chapel
dedicated at Opacus under her name, in a forest near Fiesole at the
foot of the mountains. Fitzmon, Ferrarius, A.D. 861, cir. "In
ejus vero honorem, viciniquibus in magna reverentia et venerations
fuerat, ecclesiam sub nomine ipsius erexerunt, in prcerupto quodam,
illius montis loco haud procul distantem ab eo qucm Piave S.
Martini in Baco appelant, ibique ad hunc usque diem natalis ejus
annua festivitate recolitnr. — Life by Villanus, A.S H. p. 237.

S. Ceddan, Catan, Cadan, Cacran, 44 the son of Madan, of the
royal stock of Dalaradia." — Men. geneal. c. 3. 14 The preceptor of
St. Blaan." — M. Dung. C. Mag., M. Gor., adds, 44 abstinentia et
fervori deditus," a notice confirmed by a custom prevalent especi-
ally in Ulster, in Colgan's time, of abstaining from all food during
three days, in honour of Bishop Keddan." A.D. 560, A.S.H. p.
234, n. 10. 14.

2 — S. Colum, or Colman, Colurabanus, abbot. The restorer, if
not the chief founder, of the order of recluses, or anchorets, in Bel-

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gium. On the 2nd of Feb., A.D. 957. became a recluse in the
cemetery of the monastery of Ghent, where he remained until his
death, Feb 15, 959. He is invoked as one of the patrons of
Ghent in the Litanies of the Belgic churches. Buried in St.
Bavo's church, Gheut, in the crypt of the Blessed Virgin, before
the altar of St. Andrew," Mirceus in fastis in vita Hiltrudis.
Sanderus in Hagiologiae Flandriae, Vernulceus de propaganda fide in
Belgio per Hibernos, c. 3. apud Colgan. A.S.U., p. 237, Lan. vol.
iii., p. 403.

lOT Ferrarius and the German Calendar commemorate on this
day, Erlulph, Bishop of Verden, slain by the Danes, A.D. 856.
According to several authorities he was a Scot, and probably an
Irish Scot, as the monastery, Amarbaric, near Verden, founded
A.D. 786, was governed and supplied principally by Irishmen,
Colgan, A.S.

Nicholas Fitzsimon, S.J., in his "Catalogue of Irish Saints,"
marks on this day Erlulph and Bevo as the apostles of Iceland,
A.D. 890, and Colgan gives their acts fiom Anagrim Jonas.
Hist. Islandiae, c. 7. " Helgo, surnamed Biola, a descendant of
Norwegian Barons, who dwelt in the province of Kialarn, was not
favourable to ihe Pagan religion, for he received into his neigh-
bourhood an Irish Christian, an exile named Ernulph, together with
his families and allowed him to erect a church under the name of
St. Columbus (Columba), in the village of Esuiberg. Buo, a
young man also of the same province, burned a famous fane of
human victims and all its gods."

3. — S. Anatolius, bishop. Patron of the collegiate church of
Salins in the diocess of Besancon. His body removed in the
eleventh century from the original tomb to the principal church of
Salins, Lan. v. 3, p. 362, et seq. Bol. in die, the year uncertain.
"Tabulae propiae ecclesiae Vesontianae, Ferrarius." Molanus,
Mirceus in Festis, &c, &c.

Anatolius, described as a countryman of St. Columbanus of
Luxueil : the name no objection as many Irishmen were known on
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in sense from the original Irish names, thus St. Blaithmac became
St. Florentius, or Pulcherius, &c. &c,

3. — S. Colman Mac Duach, bishop and patron of the diocess of
Kilmacduagh is commemorated on this day in M. Tal. C. Mag.
M. Dungal. and by M. Gorm. as 44 protector ab adversitatibus, hospi-
tals et benignus." Patron of the O'Shaugnessys, A.D. 620, cir.
Vide 27th of October.

S. Waldetrude, Widow, translation of. Retired to a convent
after the death of her husband, Madelgarius (or Vincent), an Irish-
man, Count of Hainault. Her festivals on Nov. 2, Feb. 3, and
April 9. Buried in a convent at Mons, Mol Fer.,&c. A.S.H. p. 249.

4 — S. Cuanna of Kill-chuanna, now Kill-coonagh, diocess of
Tuam, deanery of Annadown. Brother to St. Carthage of Lismore,
M. iEng. M. Gor. M. Tal. C. Mag. C. Cas. M. Dung. A.D. 650,
cir. By jEngus and the C. Cas. he is styled " of Lismore" and
" Abbas Lisrnorenis" by Mar. Gor. A.S.H. p. 252, n. 20, 21.

S. Indrecht, martyred by the West Saxons. Mart. Anglic.
Ferrar. in Catal. gen. Fitzimon &c. &c, year and day uncertain.
The 8th of May, Mart. Salisbur, Four Mas. commemorate a S.
Indrecht, abbot of Hy, martyred by the Saxons, A.D. 852, March,
12. A.S.H, p. 254, n. 3.

5. Fingen, son of Odhran Feabhla. M. Gor. C. Mag. M. Dung.
Cgp" Several of the same name occur in our annals. Colgan

conjectures this may be the Fingan who was abbot of St. Felix,
and of St. Symphorian, Metz, about the year 976. He obtained
from Otho III. a confirmation of the rights of St. Symphorian, on
condition that it should be for ever occupied by Irishmen alone, if
they could be had. The act is dated 25th Jan., A.D. 992.
Mabillon (Annal Bened. ad A.D. 1001), and the Histoire Literaire
(torn. vi. p. 437; style Fingan a saint. A.S.H. p. 258.

6. — S. Moel, Bish. and Patron of Ardagh, A.D. 488. Disciple
and according to tradition, nephew of St. Patrick. M. Gor. C. Mag.
Cal. Cas. M. Tal. M. Dun. and by iEngus, thus :

Crpoc 2t)oel, njjno njse, bishop Moel, a royal diadem. A.S.H.
p. 259, &c. Obits, and Martyrol. of Christ Church, l.A.S.

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S. Munis, B., brother to St. Mel, founder of the church of
Forgney in Longford, A.D. 486, and St. Rioch of Inisbofinde in
Lough Ree, are commemorated on this day in the Salisbury, Mart.
St. Rioch (A.D. 530, cir). is styled bishop by Mng. Cal. Cas. M.
Gor. His festival occurs August 1st, in M. Tal. C. Mag. and M.
Gor. In the Litany of j£ngus, n. 63, "Duodecim qui cum S.
Riocho trans mare peregrinati sunt, iuvoco in auxiliura meuni per
Jesura Christum. A.S.H. p. 268.

S. Moelfinnian, Abb. of Inispatrick in Bregia, Car. Mag. Mart.
Dung. Mar. Gor. probably the Prince of Bregia of the Four Mas.
A.D. 898. "Died, the blessed Moelfinnian, son of Flannagan,
prince of Bregia, who became a deveut monk and holy man."
This notice agrees with the Salisbury Mart.

7. — S. Meldan, B. Abb. of Inisquin in Lough Corrib, precep-
tor of St. Fursey, M. Tal. M. Gor. Cal. Cas. C. Mag. M. Dung.
A.D. 583, cir.

flg^" S. Meldan is probably the saint honoured in Tamlacta
umhiul, near Lake Bricreann in Ulster, on the 26tb of October.
S. Beonas was a companion of both. An old life of St. Fursey
states that he carried with bim to Peronne the relics of SS. Beonas
and Meldan, and deposited them in the church of the Apostles
SS. Peter and Paul, 44 In hac ergo capella S. Furseus, multaa
noctes ducebat insomnes et quia Dei colloquiis, in ea solitudine
dulcius fruebatur, post mortem hue transferri voiuit." Life of Si.
Fursey, by Desmaye, D.D., of Sorbonne. A.S.H. p. 270.

S. Tressan, Pres. curate of Mareuil upon the Marne), C. and
his six brothers, viz: Gibrian, whose relics were translated in the
ninth century to Rheims, where he is honoured on the 8th of May
(Col.), Helan also honoured there, Oct. 7. German and Veran in
Champagne on the 3rd of December. Abran and Petran and the
three sisters, Fracta, Promptia, and Posemna, of whom nothing
certain is known. S. Tressan was buried in Avenay in Champagne
" Sigebert's chronicle ad A.D., 509. Gibrianus, Scotus (Hiber-
ma in the life), cum fratribus et sororibus in Galliam peregrinatus
urbem Remeusem, vita et morte illustrat." Acts of Tressan from

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MSS. in St. Re ray 'a monastery) Rheims, 44 Rheims Breviary."
A.S.H., p. 173.

S. Onchuo, C. Of one of the families of hereditary historians
in Connaught. Became a monk in the monastery of Cluainmore
under St. Aidan, patron of Ferns, and devoted his poetical talents
exclusively to religion. The martyrologists style him Uaaij e?5er
son of the poet. " His discourses were always on Christ/' ^Engus.
" Onchuo, the poet from Connaught, composed many beautiful and
devont poems, in different metres ; but all devoted to the divine
praise," Scholiast on iEngus. 44 He rests in Cluainmore in Lein-
ster," Cal. Cas. He brought the relics of many Irish saints to
Cluainmore, the monastery of St. Maidoc,'' Mar. Gor. To these
we may add the following, translated by Colgan from an Irish
hymn attributed to St. Moling. 44 Venerabiles, sunt duo, quorum
quiescunt corpora juxta crucem ad Austrum ; S. Onchuo, qui
mundi fluentis non tenebatur affectu ; et S. Finanus, leprosus
operum bonorum strenuus opifex ; Filius Poetae (Onchuo), vir fuit
sermone potens ; poeta magnus et irrefragabilis" A.S.H., p. 277,
n. 3, 17, 18.

9. — S. Fursa, burial of, see Jan. 16th, Col. p. 110.

S. Alto, founder and abbot of Altmunstcr, Bavaria, contempo-
rary of St. Virgil, bishop of Saltzburg. On this day by the Ger-
mans, on Sept. 5th by Mart. Ang. and Fitzimon. Pepin, A.D. 750,
cir. 44 magnam partem sylva dono dedit, S. Altoni, Scoto, qui in
isto loco circa fontem, ut peregrinus et eremita, Deo servivit ;
cujus industria magna pars silvse extirpata est, et circa fontem
ecclesia aedificata," Hundius de Mon, Bavaria?. Alto was first saint
and patron of the monastery. B runner, Annal. Boic expressly calls
him a Scot from Ireland. A.S.H., p. 301.

S Cronan (Cuaran, Mochuaroc), bishop, the wise, the son of
Kethsemon, of the Desies, Kilcoran, near Youghal; M. Tal. and
Dung. M. Gor. Contemporary of St. Columba whom he visited in
' Hy. C. Mag. adds that he was called 44 Mochuaroc de Nona" from
his having reformed an abuse in the recitation of that canonical
hour. The Scholiast on iEngus commemorates the poet thus :

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Cjbe ftjAfl-rjAfl f AfAbl) X AOfl.

Whoso* true delight desire*.

2lc Cm ha rjAororj, cencuju Without any grief in the land

CabbnAjbr) 2f)ocbuAf\oc jron- Let him go to Mochuaroc.

CeleAbriAbb co lern In Nom. And recite all None.

9. — Marianus Scotus, Abb. A native of the north of Ireland,
retired to Germany, A.D. 1067-68, resided one year withOtto,
bishop of Ratisbon, and became a Benedictine monk in St. Michael's
Bamberg. Diverted from his purpose of visiting Rome, by his
countryman Murcherat, an anchoret in Ratisbon, he obtained
from Abbess Hemma a grant of the church of St. Peter, which was
confirmed by the Emperor, Henry IV. The news of this establish-
ment having reached Ireland, great numbers of disciples went over
to St. Peter's : six Irish abbots from the north of Ireland succeeded
Marianus in that monastery. He transcribed many works and
wrote a commentary on the Psalms. 44 Vir sanctus et simplex
Marianus nomine, decoro vultu, crine nitenti et ultra communem
valentiamhominum forma erat speciosus.divinis ac humanis litteris
et eloquentia erat praeditus." Life by an Irish monk of Ratisbon
twelfth century, who thus describes Ireland and Irish pilgrims :
Dulce solum natalis patriae, solum omni genere serpentum ac universis
vermibus nocivis sequestratum, montes et colles, et valles et saltus
venatibus aptos, amoenissima fluminum fluenta et virides terras, in
puris fontibus amnes, derelinquentes tamquam filii Abraham
Patriarchal, in terra m quam Deus praemonstravit, se prsecipitantes
Bol. Feb. 9, p. 361, 366. Died A.D. 1088, day uncertain. Feb. 9,
was found written on the MS. life by the Irish monk. John
and Caudidus, two associates of Marianus arc described as being
like to him in everything. The former became a recluse on Mount
Hotterick in Austria.

10. — S. Cronan, Mochua, of Lismore, son of Mellan. Disciple
of St. Carthage, A.D. 636, cir. Cal. Cas. M. Tal. C. Mag. and
the high eulogium by ittngus thus : 44 Stella lucida, propago felix
thesaurus aureus, prefulgidus et eximius Cronanus, sanctus absque
macula, sol lucidus Glasmorensis" (Clashmore, Waterford).

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11. — S. Etchen, Etchaoin, Ecianus, Bishop of Cluanfoda, dow
Clonfad, in the county Westmeath. He ordained St. Coluniba.
" Obits of Christ Church," &c, p. 53, A.D. 577. M. Tal. M. Gor.
Dung. yEngus and Scholiast— ordained Berach, the friend of St.
Kevin. Feb. 15. A.S.H. p. 306.

S. Jarlath, third Archbishop of Armagh, A.D. 482. Mar. Gor.
Mart. Tal. Mar. Dung. Car. Mag. A.S.H. p. 408.

S. Canoe (Moclionoc,Canaucus), Abb. founder of (Kill-mucraisse)
and Gallen, in Delbhna Ethra, now Delbhna mhic Cochlain* Kiug's
Co. (Lan.) year or century unknown. Colgan conjectures Kill-
mucraisse may be a little island in Lough S willy.

S. Duban, C, according to tradition, brother to Canoe. Mart.
Tal. Gor. Mag. Dung. Built a cell called from his name, Kjnrj-
fcobhArft-Afljcrjiri, but where is not known.

S. Gobnat, abbess, patroness of Bearnach ( Bally vourney, six
miles west of Macroom, Co. Cork), of Ernuidhe and Moinmoir
Patroness of South Muskerry. Cal. Cas., Mar. Tal., Mar. Gor.,
Mar. Dung., and jEngus. " Gobnata decora, et in Dei amorem
effusa." There was a chapel dedicated to her in Aracoeman or
Inisoirther, one of the Isles of Arran. "Iar Connaught"—
O'Flaherty's, p. 91.

12. — S. Sedulius, abbot of Dublin, iv. Mag., bishop, M. Gor.,
M Tal , M. Dung., A.D. 785. A.S.H. p. 315.

Co ^an has at this day a learned dissertation on the Life and
Writings of the celebrated Ccelius Sedulius, autha of the " Carmen
Paschale," &c " Sane in immortaleru cedit lauden eximia; pietatis
et doctrinae purissimae Sedulii, cujus verbis— in recoitudis maximis
Chris ti mysteriis, Dei Ecclesia duxit utendura," Col. He alludes
to the Introit, " Salve sancta parens enixa pnerpera regem," Missa
de B.V.M. The Church has also adopted the prayer of Dun
Scotus, " Dignare me laudare te Virgo sacrata," <fcc&c.

13. — S. Domnoc (Modomnoc;, of Tiprad-facntna (Tybroughney)
on the banks of the Suir, near Piltown, Co. Kilkenny. Fifth in
direct descent from Nial of the nine hostages; disciple of St.
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to some, but more, probablj a peculiar kind. M. Tal., M. Gor.,
Ca). Cas., M. Dung., and J£ngus. *' Id cymbula, S. Dominicus,
trans mare ab orieute advexit semen fcecundum apum Hiberniae."
A S H., p. 328.

S. Conan, C, Mar. Gor. Car. Mag. Mar. Dung.

14. — Translation of the relics of SS. Killian (QUeue), Quilianus,
ChUianus, first bishop and patron of Wurzburg, and companions,
Colonatus, Priest, and Totnan, Deacon, A.D. 752 or 755. See 8th
of July. A.S.H., p. 329.

S. Manchen, abbot of Mothil, in Co. Longford, patron of Seven
Churches. Mar. Tal. year unknown. " Sanctum Manchenum
ma-istrum cum centum quinquaginta discipulis per Je^um Chris-
tum invoco in auxilium meura." Lit. jEng., A.S.H., p. 333.

S. Cellach (Cellacus, Celsus), bishop of the Mercians, A.D.
660, resigned and returned to Iona. Bede, Hist. L. 3, c. 21,
Fcr. Catal. Gen. Mart. Ang. Scot.

S. Coman, C, M. Gor. M. Tal. M. Dung. Probably the S.
Conan of the Mart. Anglic, on this day who is said to have founded
a monastery in one of the Orkneys. A.S.H. p. 336.

15. — S. Farannan, C. of Allfaranan (in Tir Fiachrach). Not
marked in the Archaeological Map. ** Principale ipsius exercitium
fuit — ccelestem imitnrichorum, sacram frequentando hymnodiam,
et Davidicae Psalmodiae inccssanter insistendo. Hoc quotidiano
inodulamine cellam vertebat in ccelura, et marina scepius littora
terens, ipsos implebat ccelos suspiriis superna spirantibus. Sane
ctenim retatur ccelestium contemplator, illic certius, promptius
que subministrandam contemplandi materiam, ubi naturae opifex
abstrusiora ejusdem proponit arcana." " Irish Life," translated,
A S.H., p. 337.

16. — S. Tancho, bishop of Verden, in Saxony. Succeeded his
countryman, S. Patto, in the monastery of Amarbaric and See of
Verden, founded by Charlemagne. Wio, Menard. Mart. Anglic,
Fitzsimon, Ferrarius, in Catal. Gen., A.D. 800. cir.

17. — S. Fintan, Abb. of Cluaineidneach, near Mountratb, in
the Queen's Couuty. DiscipU of St. Columba of Tirdaglass, on

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11c banks of the Shannon ; friend of St. Canice, Patron of Kil-
kenny ; preceptor of St. Comgall,the founder of Bangor, A.D. 595,
cir. Mar. Tal. Gor. Car. Mag. and iEngus. 41 Hodie festum S.
Fintani, Stationarii, dc magno Cluain Eadnach." Stationarius, be-
cause he prayed with arms extended like across. Cluain Eidnech
was great, and, no doubt, dear to iEngus. He was a great pro-
fessor there, before he retired to Tallaght. Fintan's principal
festival was kept on the 15th of November. A.S.H. p. 354.

S. Corbmac, Archbishop of Armagh. M. Tal. M. Gor. C. Mag.,
A.D. 497. A.S.H. p. 359, n. 21.

S. Cormac, bishop of Trim, of the race of Hy Nial, A.D. 742.
M. Gor. iEngus, M. Tal. C. Mag. Cal. Cas. A.S.H. p. 361,
d. 8, 9*

S. Loman, bishop of Trim, and seventeen associates patrons of
Trim. Mar. Tai. Mar. Gor. Car. Mag. Several of them de-
scendants of King Leogaire, and Loman, nephew to St. Patrick,
according to Usher, Colgan, but more probably flourished early
in the seventh century, Lan. Their names, Patricius, Ostiariui,
Lurech, son of Cuanach, three Aedhs, Conan, Ossan, Saran,
Colman, Conall, Lacten, a priest, and Cormac, Comen, Lactan,
bishops; Finnsecha, V. 41 All these rest at Trim." M. Tal.,
A.S.H. p. 363, c. 8

18. — S Libba (Molibba, Molibaeus) C. in Dalaradia, Ulster.
Founder and patron of a church in (Enach elte), in his native
country, Hibh ethach, now Iveagh, County Down; year unknown
A.S.U. p. 368, n. 6.

S. Colman, B. of Ard-bo, near (Loch ethach), in Tyrone
Mar. Gor. Mart. Tal., iEngus. A.S.H. p. 368.

19. — S. Boethine (Baithenus), according to some, a bishop. — .
2t)on Mincer), 41 the great monk" iEngus, son of Cuanach— of
Tigh-baithen (Boethen's house) near the hill of Usneach, West-
meath. A.D. 592, cir. Other saints of this name occur in our
Marty rologies on the 9tb, 12th, and 29th of January, February 5th,
June 18th, November 29*h, and October 6th, 12th, and 15th
These may be different festivals of the same saint. A.S.H. p. 369.

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S. Odran, charioteer to St. Patrick ; slain by Failge, in Hy-
failge, A.D. 451. From him is named Disert Odran. It is believed
that he was the only Irishman, marked in our Calendars, that suf-
fered in Ireland by the hands of an Irishman. Uncertain whether
this be the St. Odran of our Calendars on this day, as the name
occurs on eight different days in Mar. Gor. Mar. Tal. Car. Mag.

S. Nuadat (Nuad), Archbishop of Armagh. Of Loch uama, in
Breffny, where he was born or lived an anchoret. Made a visi-
tation of Connaught A.D. 811, and relieved some churches there
from an anuual tribute paid on All Saints, to the church of
Armagh, in reverence of the Holy Father, St. Patrick. Mar. Tal.
Mar. Gor. Car. Mag. Mar. Dung. A.D. 812. A.S.H. p. 373.

S Dagacus, bishop (t^b^r)) °f Iniscaoin Deghadh, in Orgiel,
Louth. " He was a great artificer both in brass and iron, and
an eminent scribe. Made three hundred bells, three hundred
croziers, and transcribed three hundred copies of the Gospels."
Cal. Cas. " Idem enim Episcopis, Abbatibus, aliisque Hiberniae
Sanctis, cam panas, cymbala, baculos, cruces, scrinia, capsas,pixides f
calices, discos, altariola, chrysmalia, librorumque coopertoria,
quaedam horum nuda, quaedam vero alia auro, atque argento,
gemmisque pretiosis cireumtecta pro amore Dei, et sanctorum
honore, sine ullo terreno pretio, ingeniose ac mirabiliter cora-
posuit." Life of St. Dagaiyt (unpublished), Col. p. 374. The life
was to be published by Colgan, at August 18th, on which day
Deghadh's name occurs in Mart, but most probably it was only
another feast of the same saint. August 1 8th was the principal
feast. A.S.H. p. 374.

20.— S. Olcan (Bolcan), bishop of Dalrieda, at a place called
Derkon, Derkan, now Clonderkan : Rath-muige, or Airthermuige,
the chief town of Daleredia, near the sea, abought eight miles
from Dunluce (Dunliffsia). Was sent to Gaul by St. Patrick and
on his return presided over a great school. A church in the
Routs was called after him " Kiil-Easpuic-Bolcan." A.D. 465,
cir. Mar. Tal. Mar. Gor. Mar. Dung. A.S.H. p. 377.

S. Colga (Coelchu, Colcu, Colcus), surnaiued the Wise, of the

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family of Hua Dunchada; "the Doctor of all the Scots," chief
professor of the Theological school, Clonmacnoise. Contemporary
of Alcuin, who wrote to him a letter .(extant) describing the de-
plorable state of Europe, begging his prayers and the prayers of
other Irish monasteries, for King Charles and the church.
Alcuin addresses him, " Benedicto Magistro, et pro patri Colcu,
Alcuin humilis Levita Salutem." Besides letters to Alcuin (not
known), Colcu wrote a devotional work, 44 Oratio Colgani Sancti
Sapientis, et presbyteri et scribae omnium Scotorum," entitled in
Irish, 44 ScttAp CbitAbb>M3b»" a collection of prayers in form of
Litanies, breathing the most ardeut devotion and elevation of the
soul to God. Colgan had a copy. St. Colgan had a special
devotion to St. Paul. Mart. Tal. Mart. Dung. A.D. 791, p. 378.

Translation of St. Gall, Abb. Ado. Ferrarius, &c. Principal feast,
October 18th.

21. — S. Fintan, Ep. (surnamecf Corach) of Clonfert, Brendan,
buried in Lemchuil, between Leix and Idough, or in Clonenagh,
or Clonfert. Cal. Cas. He was, it is said, connected with estab-
lishments at these three places. Mar. Dung. Mar. Gor. or yEngus.
" Solemnitas Fin tan i Coraich, post contemptum muniii." Early in
the seventh century — see Lan. vol. ii. p. 306. A.S.H. p. 385.

22. — Maolbrigide (Moelbrigidus), Abb. of Derry and Arch-
bishop of Armagh, A.D. 925. 44 The successor of St. Patrick (in
Armagh), of Coluroba (in Derry), of Adamnan (in Raphoe), a
man full of the grace of God, a repository of all the learning and
wisdom of bis time," 44 the glory of Europe," 44 the head of religion
in Ireland." Mar. Gor. Car. Mag. Mart. Dung, and old Ann.
apud Colgan. A.S H. p. 386.

23. — S. Fingar (Guigner), M. commemorated in Cornwall this
day. Mart. Anglic, and in Brittany Decen.ber 13th, according
to Albert le Grand." 14 History of the Saints of Bretague."
A.S.H. p. 391.

S. Mannan and Tiaanus of Areadh-uird, (unknown). Mar,
Gor. Mart. Dung. Mart. Tal. A.S.H. p. 392.
S. Finnian, Abb. and Bishop of Clonard. A native of Leiustcr

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Educated by Bishop Forikem ; visited St David of Wales, and
after some years returned to Ireland with many learned and holy
men. Founded several religious establishments, but principally
the great school of Clonard, where he had at one time 3000
scholars, and among them the great Irish saints, known in our
annals and tradition as the twelve apostles of Ireland, viz. St.
Kieran of Saigir, Kieran of Clonraacnoise, Brendan of Clonfert,
Brendan of Birr, Columbkille, Columha of Tirdaglass, Lasrian of
Lcighlin, Canice of Achadbo and Kilkenny, Ruadan of Lorra.
Mobius of Clarinech, Sinell, Ab. of Claorainis, and Sinach, bishop,
to whom some authorities add Nanneth (Nennidh), January 18,
and Mogenoch, December 26. Finnian was styled " Master of
the saints of Ireland/' Colgan gives his acts on this day on the
authority of " the proper offices of St. Patrick, Brigid, Canice,
Fiacre, and Finnian. published at Paris in 1620;" but the principal
feast is the 12th of December, on which day ;Engus, thua :

Cori oni uAr cec}j lon-roujft A tower of gold over the sea

SebAjo com 5tM n/AnnjAm (May he bring help to my soul)

|=inb|A ri"6 pnem wroA]n /*• Finnian fair, the beloved root

CluAn* h\A]\\t> AbbA|l. Of the great Cluain Iraird.

The proper office is published by Colgan. igj?* The Matin hymn,
viz. 41 Rosa crevit de liliis," &c. " The school of Clonard was a very
xvm.irkahle epoch in Irish ecclesiastical history. A.D. 552, cir.

24.— S. Cumin (Cuimin Cumineus) Albus Finn, Abb. of Hy.
Author of the life of St. Columba, beginning 44 Venerabilis abbas,
ei pluriruum pater Coenobiorum. ,, Cal. Cas. Mart. Dung. Son of
E man, who was brother of Sigienus, abbot of Hy, succeeded A.D.
657, died 609. Different from Cummian, author of the Paschal
letter to Segienus. Styled by i£ngus, 41 Abbas Hiensis sapiens,
Cumineus Albus homo castus. A.A.S.S. p. 411, n. 2, 4, 26. C.
Mag. styles him 41 son of Dinertaigh," adding, 44 ipse est qui tulit
rcliquias Sanctorum Petri et Pauliad Disertum Cuimiui in districtu
Roscreensi (Roscrea), donee aufugerint Roscrea"

2a. — S. Aldetrude, V., daughter to Maldegar, surnamed Vincent,
an Irishman, who was made Count of (or) in Hainault, and

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married Waldetrude, of the royal family of France. Abbess and
patroness of the monastery Malbodius, in Hauio .lt. Molanus,
Miraeus in Fastis, Ferrarius, Bollandists, Vernuleus. Mabillon
alone denies Maldegar was an Irishman, but assigns no authority.
Maldegar was a common name among the Irish. A.A.S.S. p. 412.
Lan. vol. ii. p. 490, et seq.

St. Fursa, translation of, one of his six feasts. A.A.S.S. p. 413.

S. Cianan, or Kienan, Abb. Mart. Tal. Mar. Gor. Car.
Mag. Mart. Dung., which give nothing but the name. Probably
the St. Kenan placed over the parish of Plou kernan, in the
diocess of St. Pol de Leon, by his countryman, St. Jovinus.
A.A.S.S. p. 413, Lan. vol. i. p. 493. See March 2nd.

26. — S. Moenus, or Mainus (Munni in Mart, of Christ Church),
bishop. Mart. Tal. Mar. Gor. Car. Mag. Mart. Dung, probably
the bishop of Clonfert, commemorated at March 1st, A.A.S.S.
p. 414, Lan. vol. ii. p. 36.

S. Talmach, Mon. Disciple of St. Brendan of Clonfert, whom
he accompanied to Brittany. Mar. Gor. Car. Mag. Mart. Dung.
Probably the same as Talmach commemorated at 14th March, by
Mar. Gor.: as obsequiosum et virtuosum virginem. AA.SS.p. 415.

S. Oganus, Bishop in Ireland, commemorated in Mart. Carth.,
and by Ferrarius, Fitzsimon, but no such name is found in any
national document. Beganus of Kinnsaile occurs on this day in
M. Gor. C. Mag, and Mart. Dung. A.A.S.S. p. 415.

S. Ethnea. Several of the name on Calendars — in March
29th.

Oedhlug, Aedhlug, Abb. of Clonmacnoise. Succeeded St. Cronan.
Died A D. 551. C. Mag. M. Gor. Mart, Tal. and Mart. Dung.

27 — S. Comgan (Comghan, Comdhan), Abb. of Glaun-ussen,
now in Hy Bairche; of the Dalcassian family. Founded a
monastery in his native country, Cean nitidis. Contemporary of
St. Ita. who was present at his death and closed his eyes.
Honoured especially in some opuscula of St. Moling. Mar. Tal.
F. .Engus : M. Gor. C. Mag. Mart. Dung. A.D, 569 cir.

28.— S. Sillan (Silvanus). Abb. of Bangor, son of Cuimin, and

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surnaraed the 44 roaster," Magister, disciple of St. Coingall, and
successor of St. Beogna, A.D. 607.

S, Victor, bishop; a native of Mogdorna, Monaghan, convertea
and appointed by St. Patrick Bishop of Domnach Maghin, now
Donaroain, in barony of Donamain, Co. Monaghan. C Mag. M.
Gor. Mart. Dung.

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1. S. David, Bishop of Menevia (now St. David's), patron of
Wales. Commemorated not only by jEngus and M. Gor. (who
compiled general calendars), but also by Mart. Tal., Mart. Dung.»
and C. Mag. which mention Irish saints only. St. David's
mother was daughter of Brecan, an Irish prince who settled in
Wales. Many Irish saints were disciples or friends of St. David,
viz : Aidan, Scuthin, Modoranoc, Brendan, Barr, Declan, Finnian,
Senanus, Molagga, &c. Re-established 44 Glastonbury of the Irish,"
A.D. 544, Usher, 589, Lanig. Menevia, styled in the Irish Kill-
inuine.

Colgan gives at this day the acts of St. Suitbert, an Anglo
Saxon who with St. Willibrord and eleven other Anglo Saxons, went
from Ireland to convert the Frisons and Saxons of the continent.

S. Baitan (Boetin, Baoton, Buadan, Baithen), Abb. of Clonmac-
nois, son of Hia Cormac. A.D. 664, Mart. Tal., Mart. Dung.,
C. Mag., M Gor. A.A. S.S. p. 437.

S. Moinennus (Maineann, Moeneann), Bish. Mart. Tal. Bishop
of Clonfert, Mar. Gor. : Cal. Cas., Mart. Dung.

S. Senanus (Sionan), Bishop of Iniscathy, natalis of. iEngus

and all national martyrologies. His principal feast March 8 &s

appears from calendars and the Vita Metr.

Cujus corpus ad cellulana
Relatum est ad insulam
Ubi dignis excubiis
Cum psalmis et vigiliis
Cum Divinis officiis
Cum missarum solemniis
Usque diem in octatniu
Keservatur inhumaium

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Quo ejus coepiscopi

Coabbates et cceteri
• • « *

Terrain terrae tradituri
Potuissent congregari.

2. S. Iaova Iovinus, B. of St. Pol dc Leon, in Brittany. Dis-
ciple of his uncle, Paul, first Bishop of Leon, whom he accompanied
to France and assisted in the government of his see. Not com-
memorated in any of the national martyrologies. See his life in
the " Saints of Brittany" by Albert le Grand. A.A. S.S. p. 441.

Colgan gives on this day the acts of St. Ceadda, who had studied
in Ireland; also S. Villeicus, associate of SS. Cuithhert and
Willibrode, who together with Edelhun, Ecbert, Edilhun, Bishop of
Lincoln (Lindine), the two Ewalds Tuda, successor of S. Colman
in Lindisfarne ; Trumher, successor of St. Cellach in Mercia.
Accas, Archbishop of York, and many others had studied in Ire-
land. A.A. S.S. p. 446, 447.

Ut dudum cecini, foecunda Brittania mater
Patria Scotorum clara magistra fuit.

Alcuin t chap, xxxiii. Vita S. Willibrodi,

3. S. Fergna (Fergnaus, Virgnaus, Virgnous), Abb. of Hy.
Surnamed 44 Candidus," iEngus and Cal. Cas.; and " Brittanicus"
by Mar. Gor. and Mart. Dung., who style him bishop, A.D. 623.
From his youth a disciple of St. Columba. A.A. S.S. p. 450
n. 1, 2, 10, 11.

S. Montanus (Mantan;, deacon. Mart. Tal., C. Mag., M. Gor.,
Mart. Dung. Honoured in a place called Blarus, according to
Maguire, who styles him "priest." Colgan concludes this must
be the saint from whom the town and county Wicklow had their
name Killmantain, as no other priest or bishop of the name occurs
in our annals. Disciple of St. Patrick, A.A. S.S. p. 451. Irish
roartyrologists commemorate S. Montanus on the 26th of March,
who was probably the Montanus of the Roman Mart., &c,
martyred in Sirmium.

S Lugaid, Lugadius of Cluain-finchol, Cluain-fiacul (?) now

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Clonfeakle, Co. Armagh, sod of Tulchan, A.D. 580. A.A. S.S. p.
452. Mentioned in terms of highest commendation by S. Adaranan,
Vita S. Columbae, L. 3, C. 23.

3. — S. Sacer (Sacra, Mosacer, Mosacra, Moacra), Abb. of
Tegsacra, now Saggarth, near Tallaght, and of Finnmagh (now un-
known) in the district of Fotharta, Co. Wexford, Lan. vol. iii , p.
140. Assisted at the great synod convoked by the primate, Flan
Febhla, at which St. Adamnan and forty bishops or abbots attended,
The acts of that synod were in Colgan's possession. A.D. 679, cir-
A A. S.S. p. 454.

S. Christicola (Celechristus), B. A.D. 722. M. G or., Mart
Tal., Mart. Dung., C. Mag. Surnamed Caotij c|i*in, bonum con-
silium, iEngus. A native of Ulster, founded a monastery in the
territory Hy Donchadha, a district in Leinster, through which the
river Dodder flows, thence called Kill-cele chriost. After returning
from a pilgrimage to Rome, died A.D. 722. His memory ho-
noured in Kill cele chriost.

S. Ereclacius (Erclac), priest. A disciple of St. Patrick, and
placed by him over the church of Rathmudain (Rathmoin), diocess
of Connor, deanery of Tuascheart. Mart. Tal., C. Mag., M. Gor.
Mart. Dung. A.A. S.S, p. 455.

S. Foillena (Foila, Faila, Follenda), v. Of the family of Hy

Fiachrach in south Connaught, daughter of Aidus, grandson of

Dathy. Her church, Killfaile, in the diocess of Kilmacduagh, was

in Colgan's days, and bad been for centuries, one of the most

celebrated places of pilgrimage in south Connaught. Mart. Tal.
C. M?g. f M. Gor, Mart. Dung. A A. S.S. p. 456.

4. St. Fursa, burial of, in some calandars, Mart. Anglic. Wion.
see Jan. 16.

5. Mucna (Muchin), B. Disciple of St. Patrick, whom he assisted
in the conversion of Connaught. Mart. Tal., Mart. Dung. M. Gor.
style him Mukua of Magin, Maighin, now Moyne. A church in
the diocess of Killala.

The tripartite life of St. Patrick speaks of him as heir g in the
church of Donaghmore in Tyrawlcy. A A. S.S. p. 457.

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Philip, Bishop of Cluain bainbh (now ttannow [?] Wexford), Mar.
Gor., Mart. Dung.

5. S. Kieran (Ciaran, Cieran), B. of Saigir (Saigh fhuar, now
Seirkieran, in the King's County), Mar. Gor.,C. Mag. 44 Kieranus
populosus," jEngus. First bishop and patron of Ossory. The year
of his death not marked by any of our annalists. Some English
authorities state that he rests in Cornwall, whither he retired at
the close of his life, but his biographers state expressly that before
his death, 44 he called together his people and blessed them, and that
his resurrection will be at Saiger." St. Kiaran was honoured in
several churches in Cornwall on this day. Of noble origin, son
of Lugneus of the Dal. m. Bran of Ossory, and Liadain, a noble
lady of Corca laighde (Carberry) in south Munster. One of the
twelve great saints of Ireland, and of the school of Finnian of
Clonard. Retired to a desert place in Eile, in Munster, where he
afterwards founded a great monastery, whence he is styled by iEngus
14 populosus." His bell, which according to tradition had been
given to St. Patrick by St. German of Auxerre, was preserved in the
monastery of Saiger, and used 44 for princes to swear on, and the
defence of the poor, and the collection of the revenues of St.
Kieran." Saiger, it is remarked, was near the confines of the
provinces of Ireland. Kieran was living A D. 550. His life was
written by Philip O'Sullivan, author of the 44 Historic Catholicae,"
A.A. S.S. p. 472, but Colgan could not find it. Mauuire in his
Scholia on the Felire of yEngus states that the life of St. Kieran,
w ritten in elegant Irish metre, was preserved in his day at Saiger.
A.A. S.S. p. 458, et seq., Lan. Ecc. Hist., vol. ii. p. 7, et seq.

Quindecera qui cum S. Kiarano Sagirensi migraverunt per
Jesum Christum invoco, &c. Lit. iEngus.

S. Carthage (Carthacus, Carthach), son or grandson of iEngus
first Christian king of Cashel. Surnamed 44 Senior," to distin-
guish him from his namesake and great pupil St. Carthage of
Lismore. A disciple of St. Keiran, who ordered him to go on a
pilgrimage to foreign places and, according to some authorities, to
Rome as penance for a sin. Styled by iEngus 44 the royal and the

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Roman — profectus est vir Celebris ad partes transmarinas, Cartha-
cus regius et Romanus." On his return succeeded St. Kieran,
according to Colgan and Ware, or was Bibhop of Kerry (Lan. Ecc.
Hist. vol. ii. p. 99). His memory honoured especially iu the island
of Inisuachtair (now Upper Island) in Lough Sheclin; in Druaim-
fortain (now unknown) in Carbria Hua Kiarrdha, now barony of
Granard. Longford. Also, according to some authorities, in Killchar-
taich (now Kiicar village, called in Irish c jll ckncAj5), in Tirbogaine,
barony of Danagh. In Donegal, and in lnis Carthach near Lismore,
where his memory must have been held in great veneration, as the
master of its first great bishop. Mart. Tal., Cal. Cas., M. Gor.,
C. Mag., Mart. Burg. Year of his death unknown. " On a
certain day the holy bishop, Carthage the elder, was walking along
the meadow on the banks of the Mang in Kerry. He and his
companions were singing psalms, which Mochudda (Carthage
Junior) hearing, followed them to the monastery of Thuaim."
Being asked by his master, on his return, the cause of bis absence,
he said: " I did not comeback, my master, because I was charmed
by that divine song which I heard from the holy clerics, and I
never heard anything like that song, and they sang it all the way
long, and in the monastery too until bed- time, and when all bad
gone to bed, the bishop alone sang it until late in the night: mas.
ter, I wish I were with them to learn that song." The master
consented and Mochudda became a disciple of St. Carthage. — Life
of St. Carthage. A.A. S.S. p. 475, c. viii.

5. Colman, commemorated in all the martyrologists this day.
Supposed, but on no conclusive grounds, to be Colman, surnamed
"1c*\6Acb" the Thirsty (a disciple of St. Patrick), who died of
thirst rather than violate the rule of fasting. He was the first
buried in the churchyard of Armagh, near the stone cross in front
of the cathedral.

6. — S. Sczin, Sesinus, bishop, patron of the parochial church
" Guic Sezni," in St. Pol de Leon, Brittany. His life was com-
piled by Albert le Grand from the archives of the cathedral
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Sezni— and the old Breviaries which marked his festival on Sep-
teraber 19, though in Guic Sezni it has always been held on
March 6. A house was standing in Albert's time, popularly called
•* Penati San Sezni," said to be first erected by St. Sezui, after
landing in Brittany, A.D. 529.

S. Fridolinus, Abb., surnamed the Traveller, an Irishman of
noble birth, preached, after his ordination, in various parts of
Ireland. Retired to France, elected abbot of the monastery of
St. Hilarv at Poitiers ; rebuilt the church of St. Hilary in that
city, with funds supplied by King Clovis. Leaving at Poitiers
two Irishmen, his relatives (one of them his successor), who died
and were interred there, he proceeded to the north, and founded
on the banks of the Moselle a monastery called Helera, from the
relics of St. Hilary which he deposited there. Founded on the
summit of the Vosgcs mountains another monastery, Heleviacum,
afterwards called St. Nabor, and at Strasburg a church or monas-
tery also in honour of St. Hilary. In the Grisons, built two
oratories to St. Hilary, St. Martin of Tours, with the aid of the
bisbop of Coire ; converted the pagan inhabitants of Glaris, and
founded a monastery. The inhabitants of Glaris honoured him as
their apostle, used his image on their seals, standards, and coin.
Cocciu8. S. J. apud Col, p. 480. But his principal establishment
was at Seckingen, an island in the Rhine, formerly a frontier post
of the Roman Empire, four German miles above Basle. Got a
grant of the island from the king, and built on it, beside the
monastery and church in which he rests, a convent for nuns, whose
abbess was one of the priucesses of the German empire. 11 The
whole country of Glaris was granted to Fridolinus — who built
with its revenues that parochial church which the Glarians still
use — and made ail the revenues, &c, dependent on the nunnery
of Seckingen." Guilliman, de Rebus Helvet, apud CoL p. 491.
Though the year of his death, and even the century be uncertain,
no saint is more generally revered in Switzerland, Germany, and
in the north-western provinces of France.

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VESFKR HYMN FROM HIS OFFICE*
Cbriste Sal vat or, pietatis auctor
Jure laudaris famulorum odis
Laeta quos praestas, celebrare festa
Temporis hujus.

Instat en ! solis revolutus orbis
Quo petit ccelos. Fndolinus hcerus
Aique Sanctorum nutnero locates
Gaudet abunde.

Enro submisse Fridoline Sancte
Quaesumus nobis veniara preceris
Ut pie tecum liceat per oevum
Vivere Chris to.

Modan, Abb. of Kill-modan, and bishop of Carn fur bbuide, in
Longford, A.D. 560, cir. M. Tal. A.S.H. p. 259, n.2.

S . Cad roc, on this day, by Colgan. Though certainly educated
at Armagh was a native of Scotland. Established schools, and
revived learning in Scotland ^Mabillon, Annal. Bened., A.D. 944)
Retired to the continent and became abbot of St. Felix, at Metz,
where he rests, A.D. 976 or 975.

S. Corpreus (Cojripue, or CAjnbne), surnamed Cnoro " Curvus"
bishop, abbot of Clonmacnoise. " Caput religionis, omnium fere
Hibernorum suo tempore." Mar. Gor. Mart. Dung. Car. Mag. This
saint died A.D. 900, and is the last commemorated in the Tallaght
Martyrology, so often cited by Colgan. A.A. S.S. p. 599, n. 2.

7. — S. Carithanus. Honoured in the church of Druimlara.
A.A. S.S. p. 601, n. 7* Supposed, but on no good authority, to be
the same as Cruthnecanus, the priest who baptised St. Columba.

S. Mocelloc (Cell, Ceiloc, Cellan). Mart. Tal. Mart. Dung. M.
Gor. C. Mag. The same name occurs in same authorities Feb. 1.
Supposed by Colgan, Usher, and those who maintain that there
were bishops in Ireland before St. Patrick, to be one of the seven
saints who built seven cells near Liamore and placed themselves
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better reason, maintains that lie was the St. Mocclloc of the sixth
century, founder of Kilmalloc, in the County of Limerick, in Irish
C|ll #)ocb^\Uo5, whose name occurs March 26th. A.A. S.S.
p. 601, 602. Lan. vol. i. p. 25, 26, 27.

8. S. Senanus (Sionain, Senan), bishop of Iniscathaigh or Innis-
cattery, an island in the mouth of the Shannon. Born of a noble
family in Maglacha, in the district of Corcobaskind, County Clare,
A.D. 488 (Lan.) Educated first under the Abbot Cassidan, of
Kiarraighe cuirke; then in the great school of St. Naal (Killenuute
and Kilmanagh, on the borders of Co. Tipperary and Kilkenny),
41 Returning," say his lives, "from the continent and the school
of St. David at Menevia, which he had visited by order of St.
Naal, landed at Ardnemedh, now Barrymore Island, in Iliathain,
now the country around Castlelyons, Co. Cork (A.A. S.S., p. 539,
n. 9). Leaving some of his disciples there, founded a church at
Iniscarra, five miles from Cork, on the banks of the Lee (barony
of the Barretts), and was visited by fifty Romans (See Petrie's
Round Towers, p. 134), who retired to Ireland. Retiring to Inis-
luinghe (now Inisloy), erected a church and convent ; and others in
Inistuaisceart (now Inishtuskert), in Inis-mor (now Deer Island,
at the mouth of the Fergus), in Inis-corrach (one of the Ennis-
kerry islands, off the barony of Ibrickan), in Iniscunla (p. 534, c.
xxvii.), in the district of Sedna, and finally in Iniscathy, «♦ insularn
in Sinenno sinu, ubi vasto alveo in occidcntalem ocean urn solvitur,
jacentem, in qua ipsius et multorum sanctorum resurrectionem
futuram" ( Vita S. Scn. f c. 28). Died in the nunnery of Killeochaile
(now Kilnagellagh), in Clare, near Iniscathy, while on his way
from Cassidan his master. His remains carried to Iniscathy —
see March 1st. Patron of Hy-Conaill, with the holy virgin Ita:
" Gens illius regionis tibi (St. Ita), et St. Senano, donata est a
Christo." — Vita St. I tee, c. 6. Commemorated in all our martyr-
ologies. iEngus, March 1st, " non multum inexorabilis coluntur
Senanus, &c; and on this day: "Senanus de Iniscathuig, qui
ligavit hostiara Narachi." Mart. Tal., Mart. Dung., C. Mag., Mar.
Gor., and Cuirain of Connor. Died, 544— Usher, later. Lan.

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atid Colgan.— A.A. S.S. p. 539, n. 2, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 16, p. 540, n.
20, &c.

8. — S. Cathaldus (CArbAjl), bishop and patron of Tarentum.
Born in Munster, near Lismore, at Rachau, probably Shenraghan,
in Iffa, Co. Tipperary, or Catandura. Studied in the great school
of St. Carthage, Lismore, and while professor there, had students
from all parts of Europe.

Undique conveniunt proceres, quos dulcc trahebat
Disceudi studium —

Ccleris vastissima Kheni
Jam vada Tcutonici, jam deserucre Sicambri :
Mittit ab extremo gelidos Aquilone Boemos
Albis; et Arverni coeunt, Batavique frequentes
£t quicunque colunt, alta sub rupe Gehennas.
Non omnes prospectat Arar, Rhodanique fluenta
Helvetios : multos desiderat ultima Thule.
Certatim hi properant diverso tramite ad urbem
Lesmoriam.— Life of St. Cathaldus, by Bona ven, Moroni.
Usher, p. 755.

Erected a church in honour of the Blessed Virgin, at Lismore.
Was appointed bishop. Went on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, A.D.
670 cir., and on his return was detained and appointed bishop of
Tarentum. Thus commemorated in an inscription placed under
his image, printed at Rome : " Me tulit Hibernia, Solymae traxere,
Tarentum nunc tenet: huic ritus, dogmata, juradedi." A.A. S.S.
p. 562.

In his office printed at Rome, A.D. 1607, at the expense of the
archbishop of Tarentum, and superior, permis. 1 Resp. 1 Noc
Gaude felix Hibernia de qua proles alma progreditur ; quae Ta-
rento ferens praesidia, bona cuncta sibi conscquitur and in
Antip. ad Magnif. 2 vesp. " Catalde ros et lilium, fons verac sapi-
entiae, mi rand i flos convallium, iraplora regera glorias; ut post
prse&ens exilium, jam revelata facie, crnamus Dei filium. ,, Was
buried in the great church, in the chapel of St. John, under a
marble monument, which was standing in Colgan's time. For
his translation, see May 10th.

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Aletium, now Lecce in Naples (Lan. v. 3, p. 123), and the little
town San Cataldo, in the same kingdom, was a hermitage of the
two brothers.

S. Beodha (Beoadh),and corruptly Beda, bishop of Ard-charna,
(now Ardcarne) in Moyluirg (barony of Boyle), A.D. 523. " Glo-
riosus episcopus Beoadus," jEngus. C. Mag., Cal. Cas., Mart.
Dung., Mar. Gor. His bell CeoL\rj-beoAit>b, covered with gems,
was preserved in a silver case, in the church of Baile na celereach
(now Bally nageragh, in the county of Cavan, on the borders of
Leitrim), in Breffny. A.A. S.S. p. 562, 563, n. 3, 8.

S. Conan (Connan, Conna), bishop, surnamed &jl, the beloved.
A relative of St. Columba, founded a monastry at Cnodain, a
place on the north bank of the Erne, near Easruaidh (now
Easaroe), where his memory was honoured this day. Car. Mag.
says he rests at Easraasneirc (now Assylin, near Boyle), in
Connaught. Mart. Tal., Mar. Gor., and Mart. Dung., which
adds, bishop. Styled by iEngus : •» Athleta gloriosus." A.A. S.S.
p. 563.

S. Corcaria, Corcacia (CujtcAc, Corcar), virgin. Several of this
name are honoured on March 8, Aug. 8, Nov. 16. St. Corcaria
of this day, is of Cluain Lothuir (now Doire Lothair), in Lea,
Ulster. In finibus Brefniae, see A.A. S.S. p. 339, note 32. Mart.
Tal., C. Mag. Commencement of sixth century. Again, in Colgan.
The only virgin of this name whose church is known, is CuricAc
of Cjll Cuticle (now Kilcorkey), near Balana^are, in the Co.
of Roscommon, whose festival was celebrated on the 21st of July.
The church of this parish remains, but it is not more than five
centuries old.

S. Cronan, bishop, Ardnensis, M. Tal. Of the Isles of Arran,
M. Gor., C. Mag., Mart. Dung. Uncertain when he flourished.

S. Mochonna, or Dochonna, Abb. Son, or descendant of Ere.
Disciple of St. Columba, placed over the monastery of Eas mac
neirc, in Connaught, where his memory was honoured. The
church is now called Eas-ui-Fhloinn, from the family of O'Flynn,
who were hereditary wardens or Erenachs of Dachonna Mac Eire.

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M. Tal., C. Mag., Mar. Dung., and Mar. Gor. thus. Two SS.
Connas— Mochonna, son of Ere, and

S. Mochonna, of Doire. Supposed by Colgan to be abbot of
Derry, because, though there were many Doires in Ireland, Perry
was the most remarkable. W as present at the great synod con-
voked by Flan Febhla, primate of Ireland, A.D. 696. Rested,
A.D. 705. Many persons of this name are on the national ca-
lendars.

S. Liber, Abb. of Achadbo. Disciple and successor of St
Canice in the monastery of Aghaboe, A.D. 618. M. Gor. Mart.
Tal. Mart Dung. C. Mag., " Vir sanctus et mirabilis coram Deo et
hominibus, in ccelo et in terra." — Life of St. Canice.

S. Libranus, commemorated as different from St. Liber of
Achadbo, by Mart. Tal. M. Gor. C. Mag. Mart. Dung., but without
any circumstances of time, place, or family to distinguish him
from others of the name. A. A. S.S. p. 568.

S. Ncmhan, Noemhan (Ccelestinus, Sanctorius), bishop of
Darinis (now Great Island), near Wexford, where he was honoured
on this day. A contemporary and friend of St. Fechin of Fore.
Close of the seventh century. M. Gor. C. Mag. Mart. Dung, and
Tal. A. A. S.S. p. 568.

S. Algniedo (Algnicdus), bishop of Ardbraccan. Mar. Gor.
Mart. Dunj. A.D. 779, Four Masters. A.A. S.S. p. 568.

9. — S. Sedna (Sidonius), abbot of Druim mac ubhla (now obso-
lete), in the district of Ui Crimthainn (now the barony of Slane),
on the borders of Mcath and Ulster.

Cal. Cas. Mart. Tal. C. Mag. Mart. Dung. Contemporary of
St. Patrick. A cross was erected at a place afterwards called
Sll5e nejmb e^bb» «•*• via ccelestis, to commemorate an offering
made to St. Patrick by Dalian, St. Sedna's father. Vita Trip.
A.A. S.S. p. 565.

S. Sedna, of Kill-aine (now Killany), in Ma*h Breagh (Slieve
Brey), near Druim mac ubla. Cal. Cas. M. G >r. Mart. Dung.
Slieve Breagh extends across the county of Louth.

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church of Domnach airte, where he and Solonius, another Roman,
were buried. His remains afterwards translated (it is said) to
the island of Boethin. Domnech airte (arda, arde) was one of
the three churches erected by Palladius — Donard? in couuty
Wick low. The other two were Teach na Komanach (now un-
known), and Cell mor, or Kill fine, or Ciil finte— three forms
given by different authorities in Colgan. A. A. S.S. p. 571.
Books, tablets, and relics brought by Palladius, deposited in Kill-
more* Lan. Ecc. His. vol. i. p. 38. S. Sylvester on this day,
Mart. Tal. Mart. Dung. ; but on August 15th, Ferrarius, Catal.
Gen.

S. Sedna (Sidonius), bishop. Mart. Tal. M. Gor. Mart. Dung,
but whether the St. Sedna, bishop of Saiger, contemporary and
friend of St. Columba of Tirdeglass and St. Molua of Clonfert, A.D.
600 cir., or St. Sedna, disciple of St. Se nanus, and nephew of St.
David of Wales, uncertain. Of the latter St. Sedna. iEngus writes :
"The sister of St. David of Kill muine (Menevia) was mother of
St. Sedna, son of Ere of Altraighe cliach. He governed the church
of Cluain between the mountains Crot and Mairge. He lies at
Kinsale." His brothers were St. Gobban (Mogoboc), honoured
Feb. 11, Mart. Tal., or March 30 and 26, Mar. Gor. and St.
Melteoc (Eltin), patron of Kinsale, jEngus, Cal. Cas. Mar. Gor.
A.A. S.S. p. 573.

S. iErailian, abbot of Lagny on the Marne. Disciple and suc-
cessor of St. Fursa. '* But even his own native Irish land was
proud that she had produced such a saint (Dominum Fursa); for
the blessed iEmilian, desiring to see with his own eyes the great
sanctity of the beloved Fursa, hastened with some companions to
see him, and after a long journey, that happy little band of Irish
pilgrims, arriving at Lagny, found the saint of God adorned with
more brilliant virtues than what they had heard." Ancient Life
of St. Fursa, apud A,£. S.S. p. 574. " Hac die monachi Latin ia-
censes Sancti iErailiani, Abb. solemnitatem celebrant. Fuit natione
Hibernusin discipulis St. Fursaei." Hugo Menard. Mart. Gal. adds
that St. jEmilian being appointed abbot : " jEmiliani enim ductu

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brevi tempore dots haec societas. copioso religionis" decore ornata
emicuit, tanturaque subiode in Christiana philosopbia profecit, ut
nonnullos coetus aonosiores, fama sanctitatis vinceret." A.A. S.S.
p 576.

S. Himelin (Hiraelinus). A relative of St. Roraold of Mechlin.
Returning from a pilgrimage to Rome, died at Vissenach, a village
near Tillemont in Brabant, three miles from Lou vain. Molanus,
Ferrarius. Rosweidhe. S. Hymelin rests in the church of Visse-
nack. See the prayer ai the close of his life. A.A. S.S. p. 575.

S. Failbeus (Failbhe, FJveus), abbot of Hy, surnamed, the
little— parvus," Died A D. 754, in the 87th year of his age.
Four Masters. Mart. Tal. M. Gor. Mart. Dung.

S. Ferfugillus (Ve*n FujsjU), bishop of Clondalkin, Cluaindol-
cain, A.D. 785. Four Masters. Mart. Tal. M. Gor. Mart. Dung.

S. Constantine, though not an Irishman, commemorated in all
Irish martyrologies on this day. " Constantinus Rex, Ratheniae,"
iEngus. " A Briton, or the son of Feargus of the Picts," M. Tal.
" Abbot of Cul Rathin in Delbhna Ethra," Cal. Cas. " King of the
Britons, who resigned the crown, and came to Rahan in the time
of St. Mochudda (Carthage). He succeeded St. Mochudda, and
had been king of Alban ; or he is Constantine, son of Feargus of the
Picts." These conflicting notices leave it doubtful who he was.
There was a place near Rahan (in the King's Co.), called CepAcrj
CbonrA]C|n, which confirms what the authorities say of Constan-
tine's connexion with that house. A.A. S.S. p. 579.

11. — S. ^Engus, bishop, grandson of Hoblein. Mar. Tal. "The
great iEngus, bishop," M. Gor. " Author of the Festilogium,
Felnte," Mart. Dung. Descended from the ancient princes of
Dalaradia in Ulster. Became a monk in Clonenagh under St.
Moelatgen (Moel Etchen ?), and acquired a high reputation for
holiness and learning. Gave his name to " Disert jEnguis," a
lonely spot, his favourite retreat near Clonenagh. Withdrawing
secretly, placed himself under St. Moelruan (Moel Ruadad), abbot
of TalLight, county Dublin, where, during seven years, he con-
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monastery, and acquired by his extraordinary virtue the surname
Cejle t>e. His name being at length accidentally discovered, he
remained in Tallaght until the death of his friend St. Moelruan,
A D. 788 ; and in conjunction with him, compiled the great roar-
tyrology, styled " Martyrologium ,Engusii filii Hoblenii et Moelru-
anii" in the original, and " Tamlactense, i.e. of Tallaght" by Col-
gan, from the place in which it was composed. Retired, after the
death of St. Moelruan, to Clonenagh, of which he became abbot.
Died on a Friday, the year unknown, but probably 819, 824 or
830. Rests in Clonenagh. His name and some others were
inserted by later hands in the Tallaght Marty rology. His acts
were written in old Irish verse (never published), by a namesake
and contemporary, who styles him 44 the sun of Western Europe."
The author was probably jfSngus, abbot of Clonfert Molua, A.D.
859. Of the other works of Jingus, especially his *' Fe8tilogium, ,,
for the present it is enough to say that they are the best, and often
the only authorities on the brightest period of the history of Ireland,
and yet they are not published ! A. A. S.S. p. 579 et seq.

S. Finnchan, abbot of Ardchaoin, a monastery founded by St.
Columba in Scotland. Disciple of St. Columba. ** Finnchan
A|nc itntwrob* t e. who suffered protracted tortures" Mart. Tal. ;
his hand having fallen off several years before his death. It was
on his recommendation that Aedh dubh, king of Ulster, was con-
secrated priest. See S. Adamnan, Vita S. Columba?, L. 1, c. 36.
Mart. Dung. C. Mag. A.A. S.S. p. 584, n. 2.

S. Libranus (Ijobtikn), abbot of Hy. jEngus, M. Tal. M. Gor.
C. Mag. Mart. Dung.

S. Libranus (l|b|ten), abbot of Cluainfoda (now Clonfad), either
. in Fertullagh, Co. Westmeath, or in Fiadh mor. Mar. Tal. M.
Gor. Mart. Dung. One of these is probably the St. Libranus,
brother of St. Magnend, patron of Kilmainham. A.A. S.S. p.
584.

12. S Mura (Murus or Muranus), abbot of Fathen, now Fahan,
in lnishowen, five miies east of the city of Derry. Descended
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Ulster; patron of the parish church of Fathen, and of the great
family of the O'Neills. His monastery always held in great vene-
ration as the repository of many relics, especially his pastoral
staff, t)Ac?)ulL?rjuriA, which was covered with gold and gems.
On it. chieftains, especially of the O'Neill family, used to swear*
St. Mura's life of St. Coluraba, written in Irish verse, and a book
of valuable chronicles on the general history of Ireland, were also
preserved at Fathen. A proper office of St. Mura was extant in
Colgan's time, who says, 44 in viridi observantia, ad nostros usque
dies ejus cultus ibi viget et festum celebratur." Mar. Gor. M.
Dung. C. Mag. A.A. S.S. p. 587.

S. Fiechno, Fiechna, Fcthchno, Mart. Tal. M. Gor. Mart. Dung,
which add 44 of Inse Picht," i.e. Spike Island. Colgan conjectures
as not improbable that he was St. Fetno, one of the twelve asso-
ciates of St. Columba. His name occurs, in Mart. Anglic and
Ferrarius on March 12. In Scotia St. Fethnonis confessoris ex
Mart. Anglic. Is natione fuit Hibernus, claruitque circa ann. 580.
A.A. S.S. p. 588.

13. S. Mochoemoc (Coemh-ghin, Pulcherius). He was called
Coemh gein, literally 44 handsome born," but by St. Ita, Mochoemoc,
a name of endearment, i.e. 44 meus pulcher juvenis." Founder
and first abbot of Liathmore (now Leamokeevoge), in Ely-
O f Carroll. This is mentioned in the Feilire JSnguis as in South
Ely, now Ely-O'Fogarty, which is the barony in which it is still to
be found, a short distance to the east of Thurles. Born in Hy
Conaill Gaura, Co. Limerick. His father Beoanus was a great artist
in wood and stone, and built a beautiful edifice in the monastery of
St. Ita, Vita S. Moch., c. i., ii. A. A. S.S., p. 589. Nephew to St.
Ita, under whose care he spent twenty years of his youth. Studied
in Bangor under St. Comgall, with St. Lachtean of Achadur
(Freshford), St. Molua of Clonfert Molua, St. Finnbar of Inis-
domhle (now Little Island), an island in the Suir, below Water-
ford, and very probably the great St. Fursa of Lagny. Friend of
St. Canice of Achadbo, and of St. Colroan of Doiremore. Liath-
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chieftaiu of Eile. iEngus, M. Gor. M. Tal. C. Mag. A D. 606,
IV. Mag.

S. fccrald, abb. and bish. of Magco (Mayo), founded by St. Col-
man of Liudisfarne, for the Saxon followers who retired wiih hitn
to Ireland, after the synod of Whitby, A.D. 665. An Anglo-Saxon.
The calendar of the church of Mayo, forwarded to Colgan by the
Most Rev. Jlalachy Kealy (patriarura antiquitatum, et rei Catholicae
zelatore eximio, p. 604), has St. Gerald's festival on Mar. 10, but
on this day M. Tal. M. Gor. M. Dung, and C. Mag. A.D. 732.
His first establishment was at Eliteria. probably the church called
Kill an alithir, the church of the pilgrim, in the diocess of Tuam.
Other churches, Teach Saxon and Kill an gaill, in the same
diocess, were also occupied by the Anglo-Saxons. Mar. Gor. and
M. Dung, style St. Gerald bishop He is invoked in the Litanies of
jEngus, ceile de. A.A. S.S., p. 603, n. 11, 13, 18, p. 605, c. iv.

S. Conchenna (Coinchinn), virgin, "the devout." M. Gor.
Mart. Tal. C. Mag. Mart. Dung. Sister to St. Fintan Munnn. A
nun, and probably abbess of St. Monnena's monastery of^ Kill
slebhe (Killeavy), at the foot of Slieve Cuillen (Slieve Gullion in
Armagh county). A.D. 655. A.A. S.S., p. 606.

S. Cuangus, abbot of Liathmore, and immediate successor of
St. Pulcherius. Surnamed Macdall (filius coecus), Cal. Cas. M. Gor.
C. Miig. M. Dung, and iEngus. " S. Mochoemoc nos defendat
ab hoc sfficulo, et S. Cuangussius, vir candidus et doctrina clarus,
ambo in monasteri Lethmorensi," A.D. 746. A.A. S.S. p. 607.

14. — S. Talraach. C., disciple of St. Barr in the great monastery
near Loch Erce; to which, as the seat of wisdom and the sanc-
tuary of all Christian virtues, disciples flocked from all quarters,
in such numbers that the multitude of monks and cells changed
that desert into a flourishing town," V. S. Bar. A.A. S.S., p.
607. C. Mag. Mart. Tal. Mart. Dung, and M. Gor. thus, "Tal-
machus valde meritorius et vigorosus virgo." A.A. S.S., p. 607.

S. Ultan Magonighe, M. Gor., or Hua-Aignich, M. Tal. No
means of distinguishing him from others of the same name.

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Nessan, a prince of the royal family of Lelnster. SDejc rJerreu
o ij-inifi iEngus. " Of Inis Ncssaii in Bregia," CaL Cas., now
Ireland's Eye; " InU Faith lenn,"M. Gor. Dichail was disciple
of St. Maidoc, and abbot of Clonmore, according to Colgan.
A.A. S.S., p. 609.

16. — S. Finan, surnaraed " lobrjAft — Leprosus," abbot, and ac-
cording to some accounts, founder of Swords, Mart. Tal. Son of
Conall, of a noble family in Eile-O'Carroll. Founder of Ardfinnan
(Ard Finain), on the Suir, and of Inisfallen in the Lake of Ki Har-
ney, Mart. Tal. C. Mag. Cal. Cas. M. Gor. M. Dung., which also
connect him with Clonmore in Wexford. A poem attributed to
St Moling (see Feb. 8) states that he rests in Clonmore, but it is
more probable that he died at Swords. His memory honoured in
Ardfinnan (" in quo, ipsius ut loci fundatoris et patroni, hac die
16 Martii, memoria solemni festo solet celebrari ut tabulae illius
ecclesiae testantur. Styled by jEngus "Finanus prafulgidus."
A.A. S.S. p. 627 et seq. n. 7, 14.

17. — St. Patrick, apostle and patron of Ireland. This saint was
born, according to the more probable opinion, in Gaul, about the
close of the fourth century. At the age of sixteen he was carried
captive to Ireland, which he was afterwards destined to convert to
the faith. Having escaped to his own country, he prepared him.
self for the ecclesiastical state at Auxerre, under St. Germanus, at
Tours, in the monasteries of Lerins, and finally at Rome, whence
he was sent by Pope Celestine to Ireland in the year 432. Hit
mission was crowned with complete success; for he converted
many of the Irish kings, and established bishops in every part of
the island. At Armagh, near one of the most famous seats of the
Ulster kings, he founded his archiepiscopal see, in which the apos-
tolical succession has been preserved unbroken to the present day,
To that see, in the first instance, all controversies were to be re-
ferred; its authority was admitted, not only by the Irish clergy,
but also by the princes and kings, even in temporal matters, as St.
Bernard has observed. When the kings of Cashel, and the Danis h
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claims on some supposed concession or prediction of St. Patrick,
to whose primatialsee they and their subjects paid regular tribute.
St. Patrick died at an advanced age in the year 4S3, March 17th,
on which day his festival has been always held ; and from the very
time of his death popular devotion has always adopted him as the
patron of the island. He was buried at Down ; but some of his
relics were preserved at Armagh ; of these the most celebrated was
his pastoral staff, the Baculus Jesu, a history of which would be
a history of the influence of the Christian religion during many
centuries in controlling the factions and turbulence of contending
princes. It was employed in treaties, and leagues, and charters,
national execration being certainly the punishment of him who
dared to violate a covenant made under its sanction. In 1 185, it
was carried to Christ Church, Dublin, where it remained until it
was publicly burned by the English heretics in the sixteenth cen-
tury. Besides a few works composed by St. Patrick, there is still
extant, in the most ancient dialect of the Irish, a prayer believed
to have been composed by him when going to preach the faith
before the royal convention at Tarah.* It has been a favourite
prayer at all times in the Irish Church, and was believed to be the
best protection in all dangers of soul and of body. Its frequent
recitation is specially mentioned in the Book of Armagh f which
was written in the beginning of the ninth century, as one of the
four modes whereby honour was to be paid to his memory ; the
other three being (1) the celebration of a triduo at the time of his
death, "in the middle of spring;" (2) the saying of the proper
mass on his feast day ; anil (3) singing the hymn of Secundinus in
his honour. St. Patrick records with profound humility and grati-
tude his own feelings in being selected to preach the gospel on the
western limits of the then known world ; *' Behold, I have preached
Christ here, where no person is beyond me." He often prayed
that he might never lose the children whom he had acquired " at

• It is given by Dr. Petrie in vol. xviii. Transactions of Royal Irish Aca-
demy ; a metrical translation of it waa published in Duffy's Catholic Mag*-
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the ends of the earth and his trait hath remained. The devotion
of the faithful Irish to their patron saint is well known throughout
the world. There is uo country whose inhabitants are so universally
called after the names of their patron saints as Ireland. Patrick
aud Bridget are become the conventional nomenclature of Irish men
and women of the humbler ranks of life, and are not uncommon
also in the higher. The old form of salutation, retained by the
Irish-speaking portion of the population until a very recent period,
was, 44 God and Mary be with you and the answer, 41 God and
Mary and Patrick." In commemoration of his apostlesaip, no
Irish Catholic girl, rich or poor, would dare to appear in public, at
least in the south of Ireland, on St. Patrick's day without a St.
Patrick's cross ; t. e. a plain Latin cross, adorned with spangles, or
other more costly ornaments, according to the wealth and station
of the wearer. And 'vhere is the Irish boy or man who does not
provide himself with a shamrock in honour of the same festival ?
And with the great majority of them, this shamrock is as decidedly
a religious symbol as the palm on Palm Sunday.

S. Nessan of Cork, presbyter, M. Tal. M. Gor. Cal. Cas. M.
Dung. A second festival on Dec. 1, according to the same
authorities, and if Nessan of Ulster be (as the Cal. Cas. indicates)
the same as Nessan of Cork, a third festival on Sept. 19th. A
disciple of St. Barr. Buried in Cork. 44 Septem et decern satactos
cpiscopos, cum septingentis servis Dei, qui cum B. Barrio et S.
Nessano, jacent Corcagise, quorum nomina scripta sunt in ccelis
hos o in nets invoco in auxilium raeum per Jesum Christum." Litany
of iEngus ceile de. A.A. S.S M p. 629.

S. Gobban, bishop, son of Nascan. Disciple of St. Carthage of
Rahan, and placed by him in the monastery of lnispict (nrw Inis
Pic, or Spike Island), in the barony of Cearraighe Chuirche, near
I'ork. M. Tal. M. Gor. Mart. Dung.

S. Becan, surnamed lluimin, M. Tal. M. Gor. M. Dung. 44 Be-
Unus, surnamed Ruiminn, died in Britain, March 17." Four
Masters. A.D. 677. Probable, from coincidence of time and place,
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the Paschal Letter. " Becano solitario, charo, came et spiritu
fratri" ****** Cumeanus supplex peccator. A.A.
S.S. p. 630. His church has not been identified, though there
are several Kilbeggans in Ireland.

Failtighern, unnoticed by Colgan. The name of this virgin is
now corrupted to Caithigheru. Her church is situated in the
barony of Beare, close to the confines of Kerry and is now called
Cill Caithighern, corruptly Kilcaterine.

18.— Maidoc of Guam Ecrach. Mar. Gor. and Mar. Tal. Colgan
(appendix to Jan. 31) says his festival was March 14 (a mistake
for 18), but says nothing of him at that day. Cluaineiscrach sig-
nifies the lawn or meadow of the Esker or ridge, and is probably
Clonesker in the barony of Longford, Co. of Galway.

S. Conall, Mar. Gor. Mart. Tal., supposed by Colgan, but
without solid grounds, to be patron of Killconnell church, near
Augbrira.

S. Comman, B. Mart. Tal. C. Mag. M. Gor. Mart Dung., but
of what sec or church, uncertain. Supposed by Colgan to be
brother of Becanus the anchorite and Cummian Albus. A.A. S.S.
p. 651. Marian Gormain gives Caiman and Comman as two dis-
tinct persons. Coman, the bishop, died in the year 676, accord-
ing to the Four Masters.

Under this day S. Christian O'Conairche ; is not in the Irish Mar-
tyrologies : first abbot of Mellifont, disciple of St. Malachy, bishop
of Lisroore, and apostolical legate in Ireland. Wion ; Ferrari us,
Mart. Anglic. Having spent some years under St. Bernard in
Clairvaux, returned to Ireland wiih a number of French and Irish
monks sufficient for an abbey and got the grant of Mellifont from
Donatus O'Cervaili, king of Orgiel, A.D. 1143. Presided as apos-
tolical legate with Cardinal Paparo at the great synod of Kells,
A.D. 1153. The year of his death uncertain. During his time
was the great assembly of princes and prelates at the consecration
of Mellifont church.

Frigidian, bishop of Lucca, died this day, but his chief festival is
kept November 18. Bol.

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Tomanns episcopus, unknown both to ourselves, say the Bol-
landists, and to Colgan. He is not mentioned by jEngus. lie
is probably Toraene, bishop, son of Ronan, who died in the
\ear 060.

19- — S. Lactin, abbot of Achad-hur, (Aghour, now Freshford»
Co. Kilkenny). " Lactocus," Cal. Cas. " Molactocus," ^ngus " of
Achadhur in Ossory, and of Belach-abrat," now Ballaghawry in
barony of Orrery, Cork. M. Gor., A.D. 623 Born of a princely
family in Mu skerry, studied under St. Comgall in Bangor; with
St. Pulcherius of Liathmore, near Thurles, St. Molua of Clonfert
Molna, and St. Finbarr of Inis damle: contemporary and friend of
St. Carthage of Rathan, and St. Canice of Achadbo. Founded
many monasteries especially that of Freshford (Achadhur, " the
green plain, by reason of the number of streams). His memory
honored there. A holy well sacred to St. Lactin, near Lios-
nasciath (Lisnaskea), in the diocess of Cashel, it was frequented
in Colgan's day? by crowds of pilgrims. Several foreigu mar-
tyrologies state that he was bishop. A. A. S.S. p. 656, 657.

Auxilius, companion of St. Patrick and bishop, in M. Gor. and
Mar. Tal., of Killashee, in Kildare.

Mella of Cluain Hi and Mochua of Airisnai. Colgan says
nothing of Mochua. He is probably the saint of Cill Mochua,
now Kilmacow, in the barony of Iverk, Kilkenny. At Feb. 8,
he says this day was the festival of latter. Mella is probably the
saint of Cluain Mella, now Clonmel, Co. Tipperary.

Meallan, December 5, is the patron of Clonmel Ion in Meath.

20.— S. Cuthbert, bishop of Lindisfarne. Mart. Tal. C. Mag. M.
Gor. M. Dung, and yEngus, thus : " S. Cuthberti Saxonicide Inis-
menoc" (Lindisfarne). jEngus commemorates none but those
born or educated or buried in Ireland. St. Cuthbert was not
buried or educated in Ireland. Some martyrologists together
with Usher, Ware, Harris, Colgan, Hugh M'Coghwell archbishop
of Armagh, David Rothe bishop of Ossory, Maginnis, bishop of
Down, Stephen White, S.J., Henry Fitzsimon, S.J., Alban Butler,
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was a native of Ireland. Mabillon, to whom Dr. Lanigan inclines,
says he was a native of Northumbria. See Sept. 4,

l^f At this day Colgan gives the history of the celehrated
Clement, an Irishman, first teacher in the University of Paris.
Buried in the church of St. Amaror, Auxerre.

Aidan of Cluain maellon, now Clonmoylan, in the parish of
Kilnanar, barony of Maguinihy, in the Co. Kerry. Mar. Gor. and
Mart Tal. Mentioned by Colgan at January 31.

Conan, son of Corre. Mar. Gor. Mart. Tal., mentioned by Colgan
in notes to Vita. Tripartita, lib. 2, num. 113.

Cathcair of Rathderthaighe (Raderry, arx oratorii), in the same
martyrologies. Elimia or Felimia, in Marian alone, and Muccan
in Tallaght alone.

22.— S. Enda(Enna, Endeus), Abbot, founder of the monasteries
in the Isles of Arran. "Enda virgineus de Arania, filius Conaill
Rubei de Clochar quiescit in Arania." M. Gor. M. Tal. C. Mag.
M. Dung. Cal. Cas. Of noble family— the princes of Orgiel. Em.
braced the monastic state at Killaine (Killanny), on the borders
of Meath, by advice of his sister St. Funchea. Lived some time
in the monastery of Rosnate, in Britain, under St. Mansenus, and
on his return having obtained, by the intercession of St. Ailbe, a
grant of the Isles of Arran from jEngus, founded a monastery,
which for centuries was one of the most celebrated in the land.
Friend of St. Brendan and spiritual father of St. Kieran of Clonmac-
noise, who spent seven years in Arran From the list of the
churches of the archdiocess of Tuam, forwarded to Colgan by
archbishop Kealy (and republished by Hardiraan, far Connanyht),
it appears that in the great Island of Arran there were thirteen
churches, and four in the other two. Arran was called aha m\
nAotnf) " Ara of the saints." " Great is that island, a land of
saints, because God alone knows the number of saints that rest
there/' Vita S. Ailbei. A. A. S.S. p. 712.

A proper office of St. Enda w as extant in Colgan's time and also
a MS. life among the papers of David Roth, bishop cf Ossory.
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copy of the four gospels, the property of St. Endawas preserved as
a relic in Kill Enda in Arran, together with a casula (chasuble)
wrought in silver and gold. A A. S.S. p. 710 et seq. n. 1, 9, 11,
13, 22. &c. &c.

S. JoTngerus, abbot of Amarbaric. A monastery of Scots in
Saxony, nearVerdcn. Ferrarius, Mart. Anglic. A.A. S.S. p. 715.
The history of that monastery is perplexed and obscure.

S. Darerca of Line, now Moylinny, a beautiful and extensive
plain near Carrickfergus, M. Tai. 44 Virgo nobilis, soror S.
Patricii" add. M. Gor. and M. Dung. A.D. 518. Abbess of
Killslebhe now Killeavy, at the foot of Siieve Gullion, in the Co.
Armagh. Usher A.A. S.S. p. 719.

S. Failbeus (Failbhe), abbot of Hy. Cal. Cas. C. Mag. M. Tal.
M. Gor. and jEngus thus : 44 Quibus verbis efferam S. Falveum
magnum de Hia, qui bis remeavit ultra maria." A native of Tyr-
connell and of the family of St. Columba, A.D. 679. Colgan con-
jectures the voyages beyond the sea may have been caused by the
paschal disputes.

S. Trena (Trenanus, Trienus), abbot of Kill-elga. Mart. Tai.
C. Mag. M. Dung. M. Gor. Contemporary and friend of St.
Mochta of Louth. Killelga, now Killdelga, or Kildalkey, is in the
diocess of Meath. Honoured as patron of a church in the diocess
of Dromore (as Colgan waa informed by a parish priest). A. A.
S.S. p. 720.

The departure of the family of St. Brendan, Mart. Ta».
Sexaginta qui comitatisunt S. Brendanum in inquirenda terra pro-
missionis, invoco, &c., Litany of iEngus. The fact of St. Brendan's
voyage appears from this notice to have been commemorated as a
religious festival in the ancient Irish Church, A.A. S.S. p. 721.
23. — S. Trianus, Bish. A Roman : contemporary and disciple
; of St. Patrick, whom he entertained in the monastery at Croelbach,
near the Brosna, on the north-eastern limits of the old province of
Munster. Mart. Tal. Mart. Dung. Dr. Lanigan is of opinion that
Bishop Trianus is the same as Trianus of Killelga, an opinion which
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very far from Louth, when Moctheus was carried to Killelga to
celebrate the pasch with St. Trianus" — trans longa terraruui spatia
ducitur. A'.S. p. 720.

S. Trenanus, monk of Hy. Disciple of St. Columha, of the
family Mocuruinter. Honoured in the church of Killdaelen.
Mart. Tal. Mart. Dung.

S. Maidoc (Maidocus), abbot of Fedh-dun, inOssory. Fiddown
on the bank of the Snir, barony of Iverk. His memory honoured
on four days by all our native martyrologists, March. 23, April 10,
Aug. 13, and May 18, on which day M. Gor. and M. Dung,
style him bishop. Nephew to St. Columba of Tirdaglass, and
descended from Cahair More, king of Ireland. The Cal. Cas. and
M. Gor. say he was son of the queen, St. Radigundis, No such
name being found in Irish annals, Colgan infers that she must be
the daughter of Bercharius, king of the Tburingians, who died
A.D. 590, a nun in a convent in Poietiers. She had been be-
throthed to Clothaire II. Maidoc could only have been her
spiritual son. St. Fridolinus, an Irishman, founded an establish-
ment for Irish at Poietiers, where St. Maidoc may have been
educated. 2f)omoet>oc 9X)]ox)\) Saojobel, 44 my Maidoc, sacred
pledge of the Irish and SOpnn 2Ub«Mt, &c, " of Scotland," are
terms applied to him by all authorities, proving that he must have
been held in great veneration in both countries, though the origin
of the epithet is not known.

S. Boedan, of Killboedan, afterwards called Killoseda, in that
part of Dalaradia occupied by the Cinel-Decil, Clann-Serlo, and
Silmiridhin. Brother of St. Cormac (see March 26). Patron of
the three families above mentioned. But the first in course of
time, placed itself under the patronage of St. Cuanus and St.
Colman. " Due alias jam memoratse familise remanserunt viro
Dei devotae donee, &c." The St. Boedan whose name occurs this
day in Mart. Tal. M. Gor. C. Mag. and M. Dung, was honoured
in the church of Moin (Monensi). He was probably the founder
of Killboedan, as no other saint of the same name is connected
with it. A. A. S.S. p. 728. Early in the sixth century.

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24.— S. Maccarthen, first bishop and patron of Clogher. " Mac-
earthen magnus episcopus de Clochair." M. Gor.

S. Doraangart (Douengart), bishop. Honoured in two churches
in the diocess of Dromore, one at the foot Slieve Donard, at a
place anciently called Rathmurbhuilg, in Colgan's time Machaire
Ratha, (now Maghera) ; the other church on the summit of Slieve
Donard " far away from all human dwelling, but visited even in
the worst days of persecution by crowds of pilgrims, to honour
the memory and implore the aid of St. Domangart/' Donard, the
present name of the mountain, is a corrupt form of " Domangart/ 1
The old name was Sliabh Slainge, thus: "S. Domangartus de
Sliebh Slainge filius fiochadii," &c, Cal. Cas. St. Domangartus,
bishop of Rathmurbholg in Dalaradia, died A D. 506, Mart. Tal.
Said to have been uterine brother of St. Mura of Fathan, patron
of the O'Nialls and of St. Killen, of Achadh-caoil, near the bay of
Dundrum. In the church of Ratha, at the foot of Slieve Donard,
one of St. Domangart's sandals covered with gold and gems, and
his bell anciently called € * 51uoah," were preserved as relics in
Colgan's time. A.A. S.S. p. 743.

The genealogical lists make him son of the king of Ulster. Dr.
Lanigan says the date of his death is uncertain, &c. The
peasantry still record very extraordinary legends regarding him at
the foot of Slieve Donard. He is believed to frequent the
mountain still.

S. Cairland, archbishop of Armagh, A.D. 588. Succeeded
Fethlin Fionn, A D. 578. Honoured on this day in the church of
Armagh. Mart. Tal. C. Mag. M. Gor. Mart. Dung.

25. — S. Camin (Caminus, Caninus, Cal. Cas.), abbot of Inis-
keltra, in Lough Derg. Descended from the kings of Leinster.
Lived an anchorite in Iniskeltra, but his holiness attracting a great
number of disciples, he founded a monastery which afterwards be-
came an inviolable asylum and a" city of refuge/' through respect
for him and " the innumerable saints buried there." Being in his
church one day with Guaire king of Connaught, aud St. Cumin
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wish what would you like to have of your own in this church ?"
Guaire answered, that he wished it were full of silver and gold
that he might build churches and feed the poor; Cumin fadh.
wished it were full of books that he might give them to all who
wished to learn. When asked his own wish, Camin answered :
" that if the church were thronged with sick and infirm, he would
wish, were he able, to take all their infirmities on himself and bear
them for the love of God and his neighbour." St. Camin composed
a commentary on the psalms. The commentary on psalm cxix. in
his own hand, was in the Franciscan convent of Donegal in Ware's
days. Colgan saw it— perhaps had it in his possession. Died A.D,
653. Rests in Iniskeltra.

S. Enan, son of Muadan. M. Tal. C. Mag. M. Dung.

2G. — S. Senchell (Senellus), bishop and abbot of Kill-achaidh
(Killeigh), in Hy Falgia (Offaly), King's County. Surnamed
Senior, to distinguish him from another St. Senchell, abbot or
patron of the same monastery. " Senchelum longevum de Killa-
chuidh, numerosi cactus." — jEngus, who also invokes him in his
Litanies. Of a noble family in Leinster. Had remained for some
time at Cluain Damn, on the banks of the Liffey, before he
founded Killeigh. Killeigh was a great church of the old Irish,
the O'Cjnnors, down to a very late period. It was plundered by
Gerald Fitzgerald, Lord Deputy, who carried away as much stained
glass as sufficed for glazing the College of Maynooth. A.A. S.S. p.
748. A.D. 549.

S. Mochelloc (Cellenus), bishop ? patron of Kilmalloc ? and also
of Cathair mac Conchaigh (now unknown), in the Desies, Co.
Waterford. Died in Letha, a large forest in the Desies, near
Lisinore. Honoured also in Killodrain (if as the Cal. Cas. indi-
cates), that be not another name of Cathair Mac Conchaigh,
which was in the forest. C. Mag. M. Tal. M. Gor. M. Duug.

S. Gobban, abbot of Airdne Darinnsi, (a place near Wexford,
close to Beggery). Mart. Tal. C. Mag. M. Dung. See Dec. 6,
and May 30.

S. Garbhan (Garvanus, Garuanus), of Achadb garvan. Mart.

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Tal. Disciple of St. Findbarr of Cork, and probably the saint
whose festival was celebrated on this day in Dungarvan, Co.
Waterford. M. Gor. C. Mag. Mart. Dung. A A. S.S. p. 751
See Nov. 21, and July 9.

S. Corbmac, priest. Dec. 13.

27 — S. Rupert (Rudbert), bishop of Worms, and afterwards of
Sahzburg ; apostle of Bavaria. Celebrated in Austria, Stiria and
all Noricura, &c. Not an Irishman but of Irish descent, according
to a host of authorities cited by Colgan, 44 Rupertum regio Fran-
corunt, Scotorumque principum sanguine editura fuisse docent
veterum scriptorum monumenta," Raderus, S. J. Bavariae Sancta.
Colgan and Dr. Burke, believed that St. Rupert was born in
Ireland.

S. Fintan, surnamed t>cl da PrAlm, 44 os psalmorum." Pro-
bably the same as Fintan Coruvcb, successor of St. Brendan of
Clonfert. Cojxac)) can mean 14 psalm-singing." A St. Psalmodius,
disciple of St. Brendan, is commemorated among the French
saints, which agrees very well with the accounts of Brendan's
voyage or voyages to Brittany. M. Tal. M. Gor. M. Dung. C.
Mag. A.A. S.S. p. 791.

S. Suarlius, Suarlechus (Suairleth), bishop of Fore, in West-
meath, A.D. 746. First superior of Fore raised to the episcopal
rank. M. Tal. M. Dung. C. Mag. M. Gor.

S. Gelasius (Gilla mac lieg), archbishop of Armagh, son of
Roderic, a celebrated poet, whence Gelasius is often styled 41 filius
poetae." Born A.D. 1088, embraced the monastic state in St.
Columba's, Derry. Elected abbot A.D. 1121, and after a reign of*
sixteen years, primate of Ireland in 1137, on the resignation of
St. Malachy. Assisted at several synods— at that of Inispatrick
1 148, in which St. Malachy was deputed to Rome for the pallium :
Kells, in 1152, Cardinal Paparo, and Christian, bishop of Lismore,
presiding, in which the pallia were given to the four archbishops
(Armagh had been a metropolitan and primatial see from the
beginning); at Mellifont, A.D. 1157, at the consecration of that
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princes of Ireland ; at Claonadh, 1162 (now Clanc), in the county
Kildare, in Leinster, where it was decreed, that no person could he
licensed to teach theology who had not been a Fenlessio in tne
College of Armagh. Visited Connaught four times, and the other
provinces also. Laboured strenuously, but too often in vain, to
reconcile the Irish princes, whom no oath on *he \)acuI iorA, or
before the altar of St. Kieran could bind, in those days of Kf05l)A
50 bbner*bbiiA — "reges cum renitentia." He consecrated St.
Laurence O'Toolc, A.D. 1160, archbishop of Dublin. "He was
a man of virginal chastity and purity of heart, glorious in the
sight of God and men, and after a good old age, died a most saintly
death, on the 27th of March, the Wednesday of Easter Week, in
the 87th year of his age, A.D. 1175." "Gelasius, gemma pre-
tiosa, Comorbanus S. Patricii." M. Gor. C. Mag. M. Dung.

28.— S. Cassan of Imdhual, Mart. Tal. M. Gor. C. Mag. M.
Dung. The name occurs on four days in the calendars. Cassan,
son of Neman, March 1 ; Cassan of fcororjfccb Pe&um— St. Peter's
church, June 4 ; Mart. Tal. and of Clanrath, June 20. Three Cassans
are in our genealogical calendars : Cassan, grandson of Liberius,
and supposed by Colgan to be the scribe or historian of Lusk, A.D.
696 ; Cassan, brother to St. Pachtnan, patron of the diocess of
Ross ; and Cassan, son of Muradius. Colgan conjectures Cassan of
Imdhual is the disciple whom St. Patrick placed in Domnach more,
in Magh-echnach (Donaghmore, near Navan, Meath), and to
whom ho gave a " valuable patena." Vita Trip, apud A A. S.S.
p. 780.

S. Carnech, abbot and bishop of Cruachan-lighean (now Drum-
lecna), on the western shore of Lough Febhla (Lough Foyle). Of
the house of Orgiell, and grandson of Loam, the first chief of the
Irish colony in Scotland. A.D. 530 cir. M. Tal. C. Mag. M. Gor.
Mart. Dung.

S. Conall (Conald), first, and probably last, bishop of Killskyre,
Meath, his predecessors and successors being called abbots. Died
A.D. 865, the year in which Aid VII., surnamed Finnliath, de-
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slaying 1200 men and forty chieftains. Mart. Tal. Msrt. Dung.
C. Mag. M. Gor. who mark another festival of St. Conal at Trim,
Feb. 17.

29.— 8. Ethnea and Sodelbhia (Pulcheria), and according to
some, Comania, virgins, three daughters to Aldus, king of Lei aster,
son of Corpreus. Called Insen barely* — daughters of ardent
charity ; honoured on three days. Jan. 2, " Filiae bait he, in the
plain of Liffe," Mart. Tal. Jau. 15, "The transit of the chaste
daughters of Corpreus to their true country," M. Tal. M. Gor. &c.
Mar. 29, " Festival of the fair daughters of charity/' at Ce5b-?n-
5l)L>n-bA]cbe, near Swords, of St. Columba, in Fiugal, Magh Bregli.
Cal. Cas. M. Gor. Sodelbhia and Comania were hououred, Nov,
10, in the church of Killnais, near Swords.

S. Lassara, virgin, surnamed aisArAcrj, " desideriosa," because
burning with a desire to consecrate herself to God, she rejected
several suitors, and placed herself under St. Regnach (Regnacia) f
sister to Finnian of Clonard, and abbess of Kill regnaighe (now
Kilreynagh), near Banagher. St. Lassara was descended from
Leogaire, king of Ireland. Having "read the psalms and sacred
scriptures" under St. Kieran of Clou-mic-noise, she founded a
convent ttojrie Mac Aidmechain, in her own country, where her
memory was honoured. M. Tal. M. Gor. C. Mag. St. Finnian
having asked St. Kieran's opinion of her merits, " Dixit Kiaranus,
vere nec bonestatem morum neque corporis cognosco. quia novit
Deus quod nunquam faciera ejus vidi — neque aliud collocutus sum
cum ea nisi suam lectionem tantum." A.A. S.S. p. 786.

S. Fulartach, hermit, built a cell in Hy Failge, at a place thence
called Disert Fulartaich. The same, according to some calendars
as St. Fulartach, bishop of Clonard, A.D. 775. M. Gor. M. Dung.
Honoured also on Dec. 21.

S. Fulartach, bishop of Domnach mor Muige Suil,or Dom-
nach Patruic (now Donaghpatrick), in the deanery of Annagh-

• Baithe is by some supposed to be the father's name, but without grounds.
«* Fili«e bATfb \ P,"** nutriebant Christum," M. Tal. "Et Christus v^nit
in forma infantis egregii in sinum earum et osculabantur eiim," C. Magr.
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Down. Tuam is mentioned in the Tripartite, part 2, c. xxxix.
One of the patens made by St. Asicus of Elphin for St. Patrick?
was kept at Donmore. Two others were, one at Armagh, the
other at Eiphin. Fuiartus was with St. Patrick at Magh Selga,
when the apostle erected a monumental stone between two colos-
sal druidical stones in Magh Selga. The space between the stones
was called " Sessio Patricii." " Jesu," " Salvator," and «• Soter,"
were sculptured on the stone raised by St. Patrick. The spot is
to the west of Elphin, and is described as a ''locus amoenus, ubi
regio circumfusa late conspicitur."

30.— S. Mochua, or Cronan, founder of Ath da larg on the
Boyle, Roscommon. Of the same family as St. Canice of Kil.
kenny. Studied under St. Coragall, in Bangor. Contemporary
and friend of St. Fechin of Fore. Founded the abbey on the Boyle,
where his oacuI was preserved. Died A.D. 633. M. Tal. C.
Mag. M. Gor. M. Dung. His life published by the Bollandists,
Jan. 1, was translated for them by P. O'Sullivan, author of the
Historian Catholic*." " Vir," says Colgan, 14 dc sua patria, ejus
que Sanctis optime merito." A. A. S.S. p. 781.

S. Colman (Mocholmoc), of Lann. A native of Ulster —
governed three churches at Cambos (Camus'), in the diocess of
Deny, at Lann Mocholmoc, in Down or Dromore, and at Linn
Huachaille, on the bank of Cassain linn (now Maralin, on the
Lagan river), in Dromore. A.D. 700. M. Tal. C. Mag. jEngus.
See June 17.

S. Tola, bishop of Clonard, son of Donnchad, of the Galengi
family in Gallen, part of the King's County. Lived an anchoret
at a place thence called Disert Tola, on the confines of ancient
Meath and Thomond ; afterwards bishop of Clonard, A.D. 733.

S. Fergus, bishop of Druira-leith glas (Down). Probably its
first bishop, A.D. 584. Of noble family, and founder of Kill,
rabian. M. Tal. C Mag. M. Gor. Mart. Dung.

S. Patto, abbot of Amarbaric, a monastery founded in Saxony,
A.D. 786, for the Scots by King Charles. Afterwards bishop of
Verdan, Mart. Anglic. Ferrari us, &c. A.A. S.S. p. 795.

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31. — S. Melle or Mella, abbess of Doire Melle, near Lough
Melve, in the Co. Leitrim — eighth century. Honoured on March
9th, also. M. Tal. M. Dung. Her son St. Tigernach, having
resigned Doire Melle to his mother, founded a monastery at
Killachaidh, where he died and was honoured Nov. 4, A.D. 806.

S. Coltnan, of Cam-achadh, a place which Colgan could not
discover : either Camchluain in Ossory, Cambos in Derry, or more
probably Cammagh (Camachadh), in Clannuadoch (O'Fallon's
country), in the barony of Athlone, Connaught. M. Tal. C. Mag.
M. Gor. M. Dung.

S. Fethadius (Fecacius), surnamed "senior Murmaghensis" M.
Tal. Murmagh is a plain along the sea shore, from which Colgan
conjectures this must be Fethadius, t. e. Fiddown, abbot of Louth,
Slane, and Duleek, who died, A.D. 785, Four Masters.

S. Foilan. See June 4.

S. Machabeus (Gilda Mochaoi beo), abbot of the monastery of
SS. Peter and Paul, Armagh. Studied under St. Imar of Armagh,
who died, A.D. 1135, on his pilgrimage to Rome. Succeeded St.
Imar in the abbey of Armagh, and died 1175. M. Gorman,
abbot of Louth, his contemporary and friend, thus commemorates
him : " A tower of piety and meekness, an ark of wisdom and
learning, a bulwark of prudence and perseverance," M. Gor.
Colgan remarks " that Machaoi beo was the last saint in order of
time, commemorated in the national calendars." " Et supremum
elogium potest esse, quod sit omnium suae gentis non meritis, sed
tempore fere postremus, quern domestica martyrologia titulo sane-
titatis exornant, hac 31 Martii," and that 31st of March was the
last day of Colgan's own published labours on the Saints of Ireland.
He had prepared April and other months or lives for publication,
but they never appeared.

— 8 —

In the following year, A.D. 1176, the Blessed Cornelius, another
abbot of the same monastery of SS. Peter and Paul, and arch-
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odour of sanctity, and is tberc honoured with an office of a double
rite. He was unknown in Ireland, until his learned and pious
successor in the primacy, Joseph, archbishop of Armagh, visited
Rome in 1854, to assist at the definition of the Immaculate Con-
ception. He there learned that in the monastery of St. Peter of
Lemenc, near Chamberry, were preserved the holy relics of St.
Cornelius or Concord (Conor mac Concoille), and that on the 1st
of July, 1854, they had been set in a new shrine, and with grand
solemnity replaced on the altar. Returning from Rome, he visited
Leracnc, celebrated mass at the shrine of his predecessor, and
brought home to Armagh a portion of his relics. The feast of St.
Cornelius is observed on the 4th of June, the day of his death.
In the hymn in his honour, he is styled the " father of Ireland"
(lllandiae), and the " glory of Savoy" (Subaudae).

Ave pater gloriose
Salve prsesul pretiose
Quondam pater Illandiae
Nunc decus Subaudise.

The Blessed Cornelius, by the Most Rev. Joseph Dixon, archbishop

of Armagh: Dublin, 1855.

To the preceding notices of the saints of January, February, and

March, taken principally from Colgan, it has been recommended

to add the following notices of the patron saints whose festivals

do not fall within these months. They are given in the order of

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St. Malachy (or, as the name is written in Irish, Maelmaedhog),
archbishop of Armagh, and for a time bishop of Connor, is sJ
present honoured as patron of those diocesses, and of the old
diocess of Down, which is united with one of them. In a brief
sketch like this, it is needless to detail the life of one whose merits
have been immortalised, to the edification of the whole Church,
by his contemporary and friend St. Bernard, the eloquent father of
the middle ages. Other patrons are honoured for having, with St.
Patrick, founded the Irish "Church — St. Malachy reformed it.
During the long and ruthless invasion of the Danes, many abuses,
and especially the usurpation of Church property, by taxes and by
the principle of hereditary succession in ecclesiastical dignities, had
deformed the Irish Church. For two hundred years the see of
Armagh had been the exclusive appanage of one family; and
hence, from the sickness of the head, the general disorders of the
whole body. The site and lands of the great abbey of Bangor
had fallen into the hands of St. Malachy's own relatives. He
recovered and restored them to the Church. Appointed bishop
of Connor against his will, he gave proofs of his zeal so signal,
that St. Celsus, archbishop of Armagh, marked him for his suc-
cessor in that dignity ; and eventually, against all the combined
power of the usurping family, he became successor of St. Patrick
in that see. The whole Irish Church soon felt the benefit of his ac-
cession. As successor of St. Patrick, and apostolic legate, he pre-
sided at several synods, restored the liberties of the Church, re-
formed the old monastic orders, introduced a branch of St. Ber-
nard's monks, checked the anarchy caused by contending kings,
and after a life of labour spent in the service of the Church, died
in the monastery of Clairvaux, on his second journey to Rome, in
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The greatest disorder resulting from the usurpation of the see of
Armagh by one family, was the tyranny inflicted on the Irish
episcopal college by the usurpers. Bishops were multiplied aud
changed without order and without reason, at the mere caprice of
the metropolitan, and hence one of the chief difficulties in ascer-
taining the succession and boundaries of the different sees. As
the power of the usurping family had lasted nearly two hundred
years, regularity could not be expected during that time, even had
the Chureh not been cruelly oppressed by the Danish invasions
and internal wars. The division of the country into ecclesiastical
districts, which we find in the earliest authentic records, must
then have often been disturbed, and the patrons of diocesscs often
deprived of part of their territory, and of the honours due by their
spiritual subjects. What those honours were, may be inferred
from an ordinance in the " Book of Armagh," regarding princi-
pally St. Patrick, to the following effect *

1. That in all the churches and monasteries of Ireland, his

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feast should be celebrated at mid-spring for three days and three
nights, with all the festivity allowed by the law of abstinence, as
if St. Patrick himself had come alive to the door.

2. That his proper oblation should be immolated on the same
day (his proper mass ?)

3. That his hymn should be sung during the whole time.

4. That his Irish canticle should be always sung.

And so, it is added, should every founder of a chureh or monas-
tery have similar honours ; and every one who has a diocess aud
many regions ought to have the same.

* Patriciua Sanctus episcopus honorem quaternum omnibus monasteriis et
eceleMis per totam Hiberniam debet habere :

1. Est solemnitate(m) dor mi tat ion is ejus honorari in medio veris per tres
dies et tres noctee omni bono oibo prater carnetu, quasi Patriciu& venisset in
vita in ostium.

2. Offertorium ejus proprium in eodem die immolari. -

3. Hymn urn ejus per totum tempus cu.,tare.

4. Canticuin ejus Scott icum semper canere.

Sic omnis quatuor ista habere debet et redd! a monachis suis sibi qui eccle-
siam fundavit vel monastcrium, et qui habet parochiam el regiones multa*
quatuor praedictahabere debet in honore.

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St. Macnisse, bishop, patron of the diocess of Connor, was
educated at first by St. Olcan, a bishop, and afterwards under the
care of St. Patrick himself. Having devoted himself to a life of
penance, and "become a perfect man/' he was consecrated by our
apostle, bishop " of his own nation," and founded the monastery
of Connor, to which the episcopal diernitv was for many centuries
annexed. He had visited, as a pilgrim, Rome and Jerusalem i he
foretold the birth of St. Comgall, founder of Bangor, who was to
illuminate Ireland like the brightest rays of the sun ; he enjoyed,
it is said, the intimacy of St. Brigid ; and formed the early youth
of St. Col man, patron and first bishop of Dromore. He died in
the year 514, on the 3rd of September, the day marked in the
ancient calendars, and still observed as his festival in the diocess
of Connor. iEnghus and, according to some authorities, Coemhan
Brec, were also names by which St. Macnissi was sometimes men-
tioned in history.

St. Maccarthen, bishop and patron of Clogher. At Clogher, in
pagan times, an idol ("cloch oir/' a gold-covered stone) was
adored by all the northern Irish. St. Patrick, according to some
accounts, established there an episcopal see, which he governed
for a time in person, and which he conferred on St. Maccarthen,
after the establishment of the primatial see at Armagh. St. Mac-
carthen, who is otherwise styled Aidh, was of the noble family of
the Dalaradians. He was a disciple of St. Patrick — accompanied
him in most of his apostolic missions—and was commonly styled
" the staff of his old age/' Being himself reduced by age and
labour, and all his fellow disciples and contemporaries having
received their place of rest, St. Patrick, wishing to give him an
opportunity of better combining the duties of the contemplative
with those of the active Ufethan in the long journeys of the apos-
tolate, appointed him bishop of Clogher, gave him a copy of the
gospels called the 11 Domnach-airgid," with other relics, and told
him to found his monastery near the royal seat of the Orgiall,
where he vas to rise in glory, and his see was to flourish, when
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away for ever. Having accomplished this mission, not without
opposition from the king of the territory, and manifested an extra-
ordinary zeal for the study and preaching of the gospel, he died
in the year 506, probably on the 24th of March, on which day all
the ancient calendars commemorate, and the diocess of Cloghcr
still observes his feast. Some assign a second feast on the 15th
of August, but it was more probably that of his successor, St.
Tigearnach, whose bell was long preserved as a relic in the monas-
tery of his kinsman, St. Maelruain, at Tallaght. Among the many
saints of the family of St. Maccarthen, is mentioned St. Senanus,
Sept. 2, the patron of Laragh Bryan (near the college of May-
nooth), who lived at the close of the sixth century.

St. Eunan, bishop, patron of Raphoe. Nothing is known of the
life or death, or church of St. Eunan, bishop of Raphoe. His
festival was formerly observed in that diocess on the 7th of Sept.
It is now on the 23rd of that month, the day on which all the
ancient calendars commemorate the illustrious Abbot of Hy, St.
Adamnan, i.e. ?l6Arim<At), correctly pronounced Eunan.

St. Adamnan was born in the year 624, probably in the barony
of Tirhugh, county of Donegal, of a respectable branch of the
Northern Hy Niall. Of his early youth and education nothing
certain is known, nor indeed of his subsequent life until the year
679, when he was elected abbot of Hy and head of the great
Columbian order. Before his election to that dignity he had been
probably abbot of Raphoe, of which he was certainly patron, all
the abbots of that house being styled successors of Adamnan. In
686, he visited the court of Northumbria and obtained the release
of Irish captives, carried off by Egfrid's pirates. In 692, he returned
to Ireland on business of great importance to the state; the re-
mission of a tribute imposed on Leinster which had been a source
of endless wars. Again in 697, he assisted at a synod held in the
hall of Tarah where among others, a law was enacted, called the
law of Adamnan. His "chair/' "pavilion," "mound," and
" cross" for many centuries associated his memory with the royal
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the king of Northumberland, about the year 701, he presented to
that monarch his interesting work on the Holy Land, De Locis
Sanctis. He also adopted the Roman Paschal computation, and
on his return to Ireland induced all the Northern Irish to adopt
it, except those immediately under the jurisdiction of his own
monastery of Hy. Having himself celebrated the feast of Easter in
Ireland, according to the Roman computation, in the year 704, he
returned to Hy where he died a few months after, on the 23rd of
September, the day on which his festival is marked in the ancient
calendars. The Irish church has not produced any saint more
illustrious than Adaranan. His merits have been warmly extolled
by the Venerable Bede. The devotion of the saint breathes through
his descriptions of the places sanctified by our Lord's presence on
earth ; while in his life of his great patron, St. Columba, he sketches
with the enthusiasm of admiration and the love of a son an exalted
model of spiritual perfection for himself and his beloved brethren,
the Irish monks. His name is also connected with several very
important social and political reforms established by his influence
in his native country ; one of the many examples of blessings con -
ferred on the world by those who had renounced it, and who un-
influenced by the interests of the hour secured permanent good by
fortitude and justice. Besides Raphoe, many churches in Ireland
and Scotland were dedicated to St. Adamnan. Alcuin in the fol-
lowing Hues, ranks him with the fathers of the Irish church.

" Patritius, Cheranus, Scotorum gloria gentis,
Atque Columbanus, Congallus, Adomauus atque
Preclari patres, morutn vitacque magistri,
His precibus pietas horuin nos adjuvet omncs."

St. Fedlimidh, bishop, patron of Kilraorc, was of a princely family,
11 y Fiachra, aud descended by the maternal line from Dubtach
O'Lughair, the famous bard who alone rose in honor of St.
Patrick when the apostle first announced the gospel to the as-
sembled princes at Tarah. The period of the saint can be deter-
mined only by that of other holy members of his family, of whom
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saint of Iniicloghratin or Quaker's island, founded his monasteries
about the year 540 : and another brother, St. Callin, was, it is
said, a disciple of St. Columba. There is' no account of St.
Fedlimidh; nor is it certain that the Kilmore with which his
name was connected in ancient times is the Kilmore in Cavan.
For there is no certain notice of that place in Irish annals before
the twelfth century, and the Kilmore in the calendars on the 9th
of August, the day on which St. Fedliniidh's name occurs and on
which his feast is observed in the diocess of Kilmore, is Kilmore
dithreabh, in the county of Roscommon, on the banks of the
Shannon near the river Boyle. Another St. Fedlimidh of Kilmore,
is commemorated in the niartyrology of Tallaght on the 3rd of
August. Kilmore dithreabh, founded by St. Columba, was in or
very near the ancient Breffney, the former name of the diocess of
Kilmore.

St. Mel (Mael or Moel), bishop, patron of Ardagh, was a Briton,
a disciple and, according to some traditions, a near relative of St.
Patrick. Coming to assist in preaching the faith to the pagan
Irish, he was soon distinguished by his zeal and learning, and was
appointed bishop of Ardagh, probably before the year 454. He
established a great monastery there, and combined the duties of
bishop and abbot. Like St. Paul, he lived, it is said, by the labour
of his own hands, and gave to the* poor all that he got from the
charity of the rich. He is celebrated in traditions for having fore-
told the birth of St. Brigid, when on his way from Britain he was
hospitably received in her father's house, and welcomed 44 with the
best seasoning of meat or drink, a kind face," 44 optimum enim cibi
vel potus condimentum vultus bonus." — Vita S. Brigida. From his
hands also she received the sacrament of confirmation; and in his
presence, if not from him, she received the veil. When she and
her companions were brought before the bishop, St. Mel saw a
column of fire over her head, and when the prayers were said,
Bridget, bowing her head, touched with her hand the wooden pillar
of the altar, from which time that pillar remained green and sound,
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the veil. In all the traditions regarding St. Mcl, he is celebrated
for his intimacy with St. Patrick, and he is said to have written
an account of the labours of the apostle, which unfortunately is
not preserved. Neither this intimacy, nor his own well-known
merits, could shield him from slanderous tongues. A foul calumny
was circulated against hi in, but heaven interposed to protect his
fame, and two places were long pointed out as memorials of
miracles worked by himself and the innocent occasion of the
slander. St. Patrick rejoiced that God had protected his servant
by this miraculous evidence, and at the same time made regula-
tions to prevent as far as possible the recurrence of such evils by
removing the occasion. St. Mel died in the year 488. His festi-
val is commemorated in all the ancient calendars on the 6th of
February, on which day it is still observed in the diocess of Ar-
dagh.

St. Kieran, abbot of Clonmacnoise, and patron of the diocess of
that name (now united toArdagh),is in several ancient authorities
styled patron of Con naught ; but at present his feast is not in the
general order of the Irish Breviary, nor is any such observance
retained in his honour by Connaught as Leinster pays to St.
Bridget. At an early age, St. Kieran devoted himself to God in
the monastic state, having, like most of the great men in the pri-
mitive ages of the Irish Church, imbibed his vocation in the great
school of St. Finnian of Clonard. He had selected, as his final
choice, the monastery of St. Enda, in the Isle of Arran in Galway
Bay ; but his future destiny was foreshadowed to him in a vision,
which revealed to him the greatness of the establishment with
which his name was to be identified. In a dream, he beheld a
beautiful young tree, which grew in the island, torn up by the
roots, carried to the centre ot Ireland, and planted on the bank of
the great river, whence it shot forth its branches and covered
nearly half of the island. St. Enda interpreted the vision, and
told his disciple to go forth in obedience to the dictate of heaven.
They erected a cross in sign of perpetual brotherhood between
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within a few miles of tbe modern Athlone, St. Kieran founded his
establishment; and a rough glance at the index of any Irish
Annals shows what a great space it fills in Irish Church-history,
and how well it realised the vision of its founder. It vied in
celebrity with the greatest of St. Columba's institutions, and is
repeatedly said to have had nearly half of Ireland tributary to it.
St. Kieran died in 548, at the early age of thirty-three ; a circum-
stance, observes an early biographer, which saved him from much
trouble, from the envy which the rapid extension of his institute
might have raised against him. He is cited in the Paschal con-
troversy as one of the fathers of the Irish Church. He was also
one of the eight founders of the monastic institute in Ireland.
His relics were preserved at Clonmacnoise until the Reformation ;
the pillage and desecration of his church at that time, by the
soldier reformers of Henry VIII., are still vividly remembered in
the neighbourhood. His festival is observed on the 9th of Sep-
tember, on which day numerous pilgrims still visit Clonmacnoise,
The two round towers and the seven churches, still existing there,
arrest the attention of the traveller, and prove that the ancient
greatness of the establishment cannot have been unworthy its
national fame.

St. Colman, bishop, patron of Dromore. We are told that St.
Patrick, on one of his journeys from Armagh to Saul, stopped at
the house of a bishop, who, in reverence for his illustrious guest,
begged him to accept his place.*' " It is not for me," answered the
apostle, 44 but for one who sixty years hence will found his monastery
in the valley ; where, while I was singing mass in your church, I
saw a vast multitude of angels.'* In that valley St. Colman founded
his monastery of Dromore, about the year 500. He was educated
by St. Caylan, or Mochaoi, abbot of Noendrum or Inismahee, in
Strangford Lough, and gave early promise of exalted virtue. He
next spent some time, about the year 500. under the spiritual di-
rection of St. Ailbe, bishop of Emly, learning the Scriptures. With
1 us permission he returned to his own country, and by direction of
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him with delight, and with whom he held frequeut consultatiou
he founded in the plain of Magh Coba his monastery of Dromore,
frequently styled in Irish annals Dromore Mocholmoc, i.e. of
Colman. This event must have occurred before the year 514, the
date of St. Macnissi's death. According to some authorities, the
great St. Finnian of Moville was educated by St. Colman. No
account of the subsequent history or death of St. Colman has been
preserved. He is commemorated in the ancient calendars on the
7th of June, the day on which his festival is still observed in the
diocess of Dromore.

St. Eugenius or Eoghan, bishop, patron of Derry, was son of
Cainech, a native of Leinster, and of Muindecb, of Mughdorn in
Down. In his infancy be was carried off by pirates, with Tigear-
nach of Clones and others, to Britain. He obtained his liberty
from the king, and studied some years in the monastery of Rosnat.
A second time he was carried t captive to Brittany, where after several
years' slavery, he at last miraculously recovered his liberty, and re-
turned to his native country. He founded a monastery, in a place
thence called Kilnamanagh, in Cualan, the modern Wick low, aud
during fifteen years led there a most holy life, and formed several
illustrious prelates and saints, the most distinguished of whom
was his own kinsman, St. Kevin of Glendaloch. In obedience to
orders, St. Eugenius went to the north of Ireland to preach the
gospel, and became founder and first bishop of the diocess of Ard-
straw, in Tyrone. After a life of zealous and effective labour in
preaching the gospel, he died on the 23rd of August, on which
day his feast is still observed in the diocess of Derry, which
incudes the ancient diocess of Ardstraw. There are very contra-
dictory statements regarding the life of Eugenius ; in that adopted
here he must have bad his monastery in WickJow early in the sixth
century. Regarding the communications which he kept with
Wick low while residing in Tyrone, there are strange legends which
arose probably at a period long after his death.

St. Coluraba, abbot and apostle of the northern Picts, is styled
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published in the last century, and he is still vividly remembered
through the whole country under his popular name of Columbkille,
or Columba of the churches. At present he is honoured as patron
by the diocess of Derry only, and even in ancient times, though
universally known and revered, he was strictly patron only of the
royal tribe of the O'Neils, who occupied the greater part of Meatb
and Ulster ; and also of some tribe in Leinster, probably Ossory,
which was long tributary to his monastery. He was of royal
descent, and was born in the year 515. He embraced the monastic
life, and by the liberality of his royal relatives founded several
houses in Ireland, of which the principal were Kells and Durrow,
in the ancient Meath and Derry. His great establishment in the
island of Hy or Iona, is well known in the ecclesiastical history of
England and Scotland, from its very important influence in con-
verting those countries to the faith. Until the English invasion,
more than one-half of Ireland paid tribute to some of the great
Columbian houses above mentioned. Derry and Kells flourished
in almost undimmed splendour until the Reformation. St. Columba
died in Iona, in the year 592. Several of his relics are still pre*
served, especially the copy of the gospel called the Book of Kells,
which was transcribed by his own hand. His remains, which had
been originally deposited in Iona, were translated in the ninth
century to Down, and deposited, with those of St. Bridget, in St
Patrick's tomb.* Several writings, some of which are still extant,'
arc attributed to him. He is popularly believed to have prophe-
sied the whole future history of Ireland, from the day of his death
to the day of judgment; and in all his prophecies, he promises a
grand religious future for his country, before the end of the world ;
a belief which has certainly contributed to sustain the national

* Giraldus Camhrensis tells us that over the marble statues of these three
taiiiU, in the cathedral church of Down, wait this inscription :
Qui ties in Dunotumulo tumulantur in uno,
Brigida, Patritius, atque Columba pius.

Lines which have been rendered into English with more fidelity than ele-

giiuve :

This one tomb three saints do fill,
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heart under many of its severe trials. His feast is held hy all the
Irish clergy, on the ninth of June.

St. Laurence O' Toole, archbishop and patron of the diocess of
Dublin, was descended from the princely family of the O'Tuathail,
which possessed a large portion of the plains of Leinster before
the English invasion. In his tender youth, being delivered up as
hostage to the cruel Diarmuid Mac Murrough, king of Leinster,
he learned to despise the world, and on the recovery of his liberty,
devoted himself to God in the monastery of St. Kevin, at Glenda-
loch. At the early age of twenty-five he was elected abbot, and
signalised his government by the practice of all the virtues of his
state. Elected bishop of Glendaloch, he succeeded in declining
that dignity; but in 1162 he was compelled to accept the arch-
bishopric of Dublin, which was soon to experience all the first
horrors of that invasion which has not yet ceased to be felt as a
conquest. All the virtues that such an occasion should call forth
in a great and generous Christian prelate were displayed by St.
Laurence. He was the father of the poor, the refuge of the op-
pressed, and the hope of his distracted country ; he endeavoured,
as long as there was hope, to expel the invaders, and to check
their rapacity and cruelty in the hour of conquest. He loved to
retire annually to his former retreat in the valley of Glendaloch,
to nerve his soul for the multiplied cares that overwhelmed him.
Having assisted at the third Council of Lateran,he was appointed
legate by Pope Alexander II., from whom he also obtained a
special protection for the property of his church. Controversy
having arisen about the fulfilment of a treaty which he had nego-
tiated for the king of Ireland, he proceeded to France to plead the
rights of his country before Henry II., and in that work of charity
was seized with his last illness at Eu in Normandy, where he died,
in the year 1180, in the fifty-eighth year of his age. His relics
are still preserved in a shrine in the beautiful church of that town.
Some portion of them, however, had been translated to Christ
Church, Dublin, on occasion of the saint's canonization by Pope
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was profaned at the Reformation. HU festival is kept on the 1-Jiii
of November.

St. Coemghen, or Kevin, abbot, patron of Dublin, was born
about the year 500, of a princely family, whose territory lay near
the sea-shore in the present county of Wicklow. His father, Coem-
lugh was of the royal line of Leinster, and his mother, Coemella,
was of the Dal Messingcorb. The singular grace and beauty of
the child gave rise to the legend that he had been baptised by
an angel ; and when he was really baptised by St. Cronan, 41 he
shall be called," said that saint, " what he is, Coemghen, that is,
fair born, for he shall be exceedingly comely." From his seventh
to his twelfth year he was placed under Petroc, a holy Briton
then residing in Ireland. He was next sent to the^monastery of
St Eugenius, his uncle, patron of Derry. There "in the first
flower of his youth/' he devoted himself to study and spiritual
exercises, and overcame the temptation popularized in Moore's
well-known song. But there was a very different result to the irail
tempter; "for the saint prayed for her, and converted her, and she
made a vow of chastity to God, and became a prudent and hoiy

. virgin, and obeyed all his directions through the whole course of
her life." While in the same house, it is said that having worked
a miracle, and hearing some one say that he should be abbot, he
stole away, and concealed himself for a time in the valley of Glen-
daloch, his future home. Being discovered, he was, after some
time, sent to bishop Lugidh, who was thinking of retiring to some
foreign country. But he was admonished in a vision, " do not de-
sert Ireland ; because, by the mercy of God, you shall ordain many
saints in it." He ordained St. Kevin, and told him to establish
his cell at Cluanduach, to collect " servants of the Lord," whom
he brought with him after a short time to his own country.
There in the wild valley of Glendaloch, shut in by mountains and

' forests, and intersected by lakes, he founded that monastery which
became a bishop's see, the parent of many houses in Leinster, and
which fully realized the prediction of the angel 44 That it should
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Ireland should honour it for the sake of God and St. Kevin, with
land and gold and silver and precious stones and silks and presents
from beyond the sea." This event occurred about the year 549.
In a Life of our saint, it is stated that he met St. Comgall, St.
Canice, and St. Columba, at Usny hill, on business of national
importance, and that he %vas specially honoured by St. Columba.
He also visited Clonmacnoise a few days after the death of St.
Kiaran, A.D. 559, watched a night in the church with his remains,
and established a lasting bond of amity between that great house
and his own. Having put his monastery in order, he retired to a
more secluded recess in the valley of Glendaloch, and practised
during five years the greatest austerity. For him, as for other
saints, part o? the lost empire of paradise was restored, as the wild
beasts of the mountain and the forest became tame in his presence,
and drank water out of bis hand. Among many other examples,
we are told, for instance, that on one occasion, a wild boar, tracked
by the hounds of King Brandub's huntsman, burst into his little
oratory: the saint was praying under a tree, with birds of different
kinds perched on his hand and shoulders, or flying around him,
singing their gayest notes — for even the boughs and leaves were
musical for the saint of God. The hounds crouched before the
oratory, but dared not enter, and the huntsman, Enna, the ancestor
of the Kinsellas, awed by the miracle, drew them away. For this
or a similar reason, St. Kevin was always represented in pictures in
the ancient churches with a bird on his hand. At one time, he
was tempted to wander about as a pilgrim, but St. Garbhan, a monk
near Dublin, prevented him by observing "that it was not by
flying, birds hatched their eggs." Being compelled by his monks
to resume the government of his house, he died at the great age
of 120, in the year 618, on the 3rd of June, the day on which his
feast is marked in the ancient calendars, and still observed in the
diocess of Dublin. In the Leabhar na Gceart, St. Kevin appears
entitled to nearly the same honours as St. Brigid from the kings
of ancient Leinster, a territory co-extensive with the present ec-
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St. Edan. See preceding Catalogue of Irish Saints, January
31, p. 64.

St. Kieran. See preceding Catalogue of Irish Saints, March

5, p. 83.

St. Canice, abbot, whose name is generally associated in the
earlier annals with Aghavoe, in the Queen's County and diocess of
Ossory, is patron now of the chief city of that diocess, Kilkenny,
to which he has given his name. He was born in the year 516,
of a bardic family in Cianacht (county of Londonderry), of which
he was considered patron in former ages. Having commenced his
religious life in Britain, and made a pilgrimage to Rome — and
adorned, with the other great saints of Ireland, the school of St.
Finntan of Clonard— he founded, by the munificence of the prince
of Ossory, his great monastery of Aghavoe, which was an episco-
pal see until the twelfth century. The seat of the bishops of
Ossory was at that time transferred to Kilkenny, where there had
been from a very early period a church in honour of the saint.
The round tower of his ancient establishment still exists. St.
Canice wrote several works, a commentary on the Scriptures,
and some poems in honour of his friend St. Columba, whom he
twice visited at Iona. He died in 599, aged 84. His festival is
the 11th of October. We give below a sketch of the life of St.
Canice p. 138.

St. Bridget. See preceding Catalogue of Irish Saints, February
1, p. 65.

St. Conlaeth, bishop, patron of Kildare. St. Brigid having
founded her monastery at Kildare, and established many branches
of her order in different provinces of Ireland, called from his re-
treat on the banks of the Liffey, a holy solitary, St. Conlaeth, to
assist her in governing her churches, to consecrate them, to con-
fer orders, and to perform all the functions of the sacerdotal
office. St. Conlaeth was accordingly consecrated bishop about
the year 490. His jurisdiction, it is clearly stated by Cogitosus,
extended to all the churches of St. Brigid, which, probably, like
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aisle, the sanctuary being reserved for the nuns and the clerical
assistants— three separate oratories under one principal roof. The
bishop governed the diocess ; the abbess the convents, with a right
to the churches annexed to, and established by them. Before his
elevation to the episcopacy, St. Conlaeth had been distinguished
by his great sanctity and miracles. The wonderful diffusion of
the order with which he became connected, and the favour in
which he was held by the patroness of Ireland, attest the faithful
discharge of his episcopal duties. He is described by Cogitosus, a
writer of the 7th or 8th century, as "head of all the bishops/'
and as " archbishop/' Kildare having become, by the fame of its
patroness and her monastery, the metropolis of Leinster. St.
Conlaeth died in the year 519, on the 3rd of May, on which his
feast is commemorated in the ancient calendars, and is still observed
in the diocess of Kildare. His relics were deposited in a monument
to the right of the altar, in the great church which he had erected,
those of his friend and patroness, who survived him a few years,
being placed on the left. 11 They were adorned with gold and
silver and gems and precious stones, with crowns of gold and
silver suspended from above/' before they were pillaged by the
savage Danes, in the commencement of the ninth century.

St. Laserian, bishop, patron of Leighlin, son of Cairel of Ulidia
(Down and Antrim), and of a daughter of Aidan, king of the Scots,
named Gemma, a gem, saith our author, in merits as in name.
According to one account, his earliest years were spent in Scotland,
and afterwards in a small island to which he fled from honours
that alarmed his humility. Visiting Rome, where he remained
many years, he was ordained deacon and priest by St. Gregory the
Great, from whom he received a copy of the sacred scriptures,
with an order to preach the gospel in Ireland. Coming to Leigh-
lin, he worked a miracle in the monastery of St. Gobban, who
prevailed on him to accept the office of superior of that house. A
large community of 1500 monks was soon attracted by the fame
of its new superior, fulfilling, it was said, a prediction of St.
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linahost of angels, and assured his associates, that in that spot a
fervent stranger would one day have disciples as numerous as the
angels there now. ** Happy college," exclaims the biographer,
'* whose virtues were heralded by the army of heaven." In the
paschal question, St. Laserian, defending the Roman custom, went
to Rome, after the synod of Maghlene ; was consecrated bishop
by Pope Honorius I., and returning to Ireland in 633, established
in the south the Roman Ea&ter. He died in the year 639, on the
18 th of April, the day on which his feast is kept in the diocess of
Leighlin, the only diocess that now observes it. In a synod
held under Alexander Bicknor, archbishop of Dublin, the office of
St Laserian was prescribed as a double for the Dublin province.
A legend in his life illustrates his fame. In the province of
Leinster, it says, there was a magnificent yew, so large that all the
saints of Ireland wished to have it for their church, but each
knowing the wish of the others would not presume to appropriate
it. Was the earth then to expend its vigour in vain in so noble
a fruit ? The saints, assembling around the tree, fasted and prayed :
as the others prayed, the earth heaved around the trunk, and the
huge boughs quivered ; at the prayer of St. Laserian the whole
tree toppled and crashed to the ground. But as his prayers had
only completed what the others had begun, the matter was referred
to Cronmael, prince and bishop, who decided in his favour. To
Leighlin the yew accordingly went, and there by the supernaturally
acquired skill of the artist, it soon arose a beautiful church. On
the eve of its consecration it was honoured by the choirs of angels,
whose hymn of peace was long remembered on the rich banks of
the Barrow, and along the rugged glens and heath-covered hills
of Slieve Margy.

St. Albert. See preceding Catalogue of Irish Saints, January
8, p. 52.

St. Ailbhe, bishop of Emly, is at present honoured as patron of

that diocess (now united to Cashel). And though his office is not

in the general order of the Irish Church, nor even in that of the

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times, patron of the province of Munster ; and for that reason we
give him in this historical sketch of patron saints, precedence of
some saints whose offices are still recited by all the Irish clergy.
In the Paschal controversy, in the commencement of the ninth
century, St. Ailbhe is cited as one of the primitive fathers of the
Irish Church, and bis authority urged for the obligation of con-
forming to whatever laws might be introduced from Rome, the
" fountain of our baptism." There is a general tradition that he
had been in Rome. In later times, in the rivalry of the south
and north of Ireland, it was contended by the former that he had
been bishop in Ireland before St. Patrick ; a supposition, however,
at variance with the undoubted date of his death, which was in
the year 541. In the very ancient poem by Cuimin of Connor on
the most eminent Irish saints, St. Ailhhe is celebrated for his
boundless and most tender charity to the poor and the distressed.
A common title by which he is known in Irish history is the
" second patron of Munster after Patrick," or «' the Patrick of
Munster." He was buried in Eraly ; and his mitre was preserved
there until the year 1122. The honour of his church during the
first centuries was gradually eclipsed by the growing ascendancy
of Cashel, to which see, in the twelfth century, was transferred by
St. Celsus, the archiepiscopal dignity, supposed to have been for*
merly annexed to Emiy. The festival of St. Ailbhe is kept by the
clergy of Emly on the 12th of September.

St. Finbar, or Barr, bishop, patron of Cork, was a native of
Connaught, of the sept of the Hy Briuin. He was educated at
first in Leinster, under a master who had been instructed by St.
Gregory the Great. He had also, probably like most of his dis*
tinguished contemporaries, lived under St. Comgall in Bangor,
for a St. Finbarr appears among other great men, viz., St. Molua,
St. Mochoemog, &c, who had been sent out by that patriarch to
found monasteries in several parts of Ireland. All accounts agree
that he visited Rome, but neither the date of that event, nor of
the foundation of his monastery in Cork, nor of his death can
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of St. Aidan, bishop of Ferns, St. Barr appears as their friend.
A tree was long shown at Leighlin as a memorial of his visit to St.
Laserian, when going, with twelve companions, on pilgrimage to
Rome. The place where he founded his monastery is described
as near Locheirc, supposed to be the marshy ground on which the
city of Cork is built. Around the monastery, as was usual, arose
the episcopal town. In the Litanies of iEngus, composed about
the close of the eighth century, St. Barr and seventeen bishops
interred with him in Cork, are* invoked. His school produced, it
is said, many illustrious saints, founders of churches which ac-
knowledged the jurisdiction of his see. After an episcopacy of
seventeen years he died at Cloyne, on the 25th of September, the
day marked in all the ancient calendars, and still observed in the
diocess of Cork. The year is uncertain, 623 or 630. Alluding to
a romantic incident in the life of St. Finbar, the author of the life
of St. David of Wales, writes : 44 in perpetuam miraculi memoriam,
discipuli S. Barrii fecerunt equum aeneura super imaginem sancti."

St. Brendan, patron of Kerry and of Cionfert, born of a distin-
guished family in Kerry. Placed by Bishop Ere in his infancy
under the care of St. Ita, became her special favourite. By her

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advice, it is said, studied with St. Jarlath. He is also connected
in national tradition with St. Finnian's school of Clonard. After
an absence of some years in Brittany, where he foutided a monas-
tery and a school, and after his famous voyage in search of the
unknown islands, so celebrated in the mediaeval traditions of
Europe, he returned to Ireland, and founded his great monastery
of Cionfert. In that monastery, and in others of his institution
in different parts of Ireland, he governed three thousand monks
under a rule so perfect, that it was believed to be dictated by an
angel. He founded a nunnery at Annadown, over which be placed
his sister Briga. The estimation in which he was held appears
from various narratives in the lives of different saints. Fifty
Romans coming to Ireland for retiiement and study, according to
a life of St. Senanus, divided into five equal parties — ten each, to
Finbar, Kiaran, Finnian, Senan, and Brendan. In St. Adarunan's

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life of St. Columba, it is related that four holy founders of monas-
teries in Ireland, Comgall, Canice, Brendan, aud Cormac, going
to visit St. Columba, found him in the island of Hinba. They re-
quested him to celebrate the holy mysteries of the Eucharist, and
while he was standing before the altar, and consecrating the holy
oblation, a globe of very brilliant tire was seen over his head by
St. Brendan, who afterwards told the fact to St. Comgall and St.
Canice. Died in his sister's monastery at Annadown, in the 94th
year of his age, A.D. 577, on the 16th of May, the day on which
his festival is still observed by the diocesses of Kerry and of
Clonfert. Dr. Lanigan doubts whether Brendan was abbot and
bishop.

St. Munchin, bishop, patron of Limerick, is honoured in that
diocess, on the 2nd of January. The name is considered the
same as Manchen, Mancen, or Manchan, i. e. the diminutive of
Manach, a monk, according to Colgan. It occurs seven or eight
times in the old Irish calendars, but the notices recorded in the
calendars or annals of the different persons of the same name are
so scanty that it is impossible to give a very satisfactory account
of them. The Martyrology of Tallaght commemorates a Mancen
the Wise, on the 2nd of January, the day on which the feast of the
patron of Limerick is kept, a coincidence which may be taken as
sufficient proof of their identity. He is also called abbot of Meno-
drochid, now Monadreehid, about a mile from Borris-in-Ossory,
and his death recorded, A.D. 652. It would not be unusual
that a church in that locality, the extreme eastern boundary of
Thomond, should be under the special patronage of St. Munchin of
Limerick, if he was, as there is reason to believe, son of Sedna of the
royal line of the Dalcassian kings of Thomond. The churches of
the patron saint of the territory, arc often on its boundaries.
Manchan the Wise had, as his name signifies, a great reputation for
learning and sanctity. By some he is considered the same as
St. Manchen of Moithill, in Longford, who was patron of seven
churches in different localities, and who is invoked, with his 150
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noticed at later periods ; St. Manchen of Leth, patron of Leman-
aghan in the King's County, who died in 664, and Manchan, styled
in an ancient record " Hieronymus sapiens/' abbot of Tomgraney
in Clare, who died in the year 735.

St. Colman, bishop, patron of Cloyne, was son of Lenin, of the
royal family of Munster. In his earlier years he was distinguished
for his poetic talents, which he afterwards consecrated to religion
by several works, especially an elegant metrical life of St. Senanus.
St. Ita foretold his conversion to St. Brendan of Clonfert, who
admonished him to do penance, " for God has called thee," he
said, " to salvation, and thou shalt be as an innocent dove in the
sight of God," i.e. Columba. St. Colman obeyed the inspiration
of grace, and becoming distinguished for his sanctity and learning
among the saints of Ireland, founded the church of Cloyne. Its
precise date is uncertain. His conversion cannot have occurred
earlier than the middle of the sixth century; for he assisted about
that time, it is said, as royal bard at the inauguration of Aodh
Caomh, king of Cashel. St. Colman died in the year 601 or 604,
on the 24th of November, the day marked in all the ancient
calendars, and on which his festival is still observed in the diocess
of Cloyne.

St. Fachnan, bishop, patron of the dioccsses of Ross and of Kil-
fenora, was at first abbot of Molana monastery, near Youghal. He
then founded on the sea- shore of South Munster a monastery at
Ross, which soon became so famous from the crowds of students
and monks flocking to it, that it was distinguished by the name of
Ross ailithir, or Ross of the pilgrims. It became at the same time
the seat of a bishopric. St* Fachnan, like mauy other eminent
saints of the age, received great favours from St. Ita. His birth,
it is said, and the future greatness of his school, were foretold by
St. Kiaran of Ossory, whose mother was of his family, and who
was born in the territory of Ross, at a place still called St. Kieran's
strand (Traigh Ciaran), in Cape Clear Island. After St Fachanan,
twenty-seven bishops of his tribe ruled the see of Ross, which
was co-eitensive with the territory of the Corca-Iaidhe.

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The names of these bishops are not known— nothing but their
number, and the extent of their jurisdiction; a warning not to
infer that there was no regular succession of bishops, nor fixed
boundaries of ancient Irish sees, because it is often impossible, at
the present day, to ascertain either. Dr. Lanigan doubts whether
the St. Fachtnan of Ross be the same as the St. Fachtnan of Kil-
fenora. Their festivals are on the same day, the 14th of August,
and the dominant tribe in both territories were in ancient times
the same— -wo circumstances which strongly confirm their iden-
tity. The precise date of St. Fachtnan's death is not known : it
was probably about the close of the sixth century ; though ac-
cording to a local tradition, the first Irish prince that embraced
the Christian faith was of this district, and a cross, a monument
of that event, is still shown in Clear Island.

St. Flannan, bishop, patron of the diocess of Kitlaloe, was son
of Theodoric or Turlough, king of Thomond. Educated by St.
Molua, or rather in his monastery, St. Flannan retired to Lismore,
whither his father, resigning his throne, followed soon after.
There in that secluded retreat, between " the soaring mountains
on the north and the thick and extensive forests on the south/' St.
Flannan was found, engaged with other monks in opening a road
through the narrow and almost impassable valley along the Avon-
more, near the monastery. From Lismore he went on a pilgrim-
age to Rome, where he was consecrated by the pope, bishop of
Kilialoe. His see, it is said, was richly endowed by his father..
Turlouga, In some ecclesiastical edifices attributed to him, an
eminent modern artist and antiquarian thinks, may be traced
evidences of the influence of the Roman tastes of the founder.
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church is uncertain, but it appears his sojourn at Lismore must
have been during the episcopacy of St. Colman, about the year
700. Theodoric, leaving the monastery of Lismore, died, and was
interred in the church of Kill aloe with magnificent ceremony by
his son, whose sacred remains were at his death deposited in the
same church. Some time after his death, a great assembly of
princes and prelates at Killaloe collected a large sum of silver and
gold, ordered a gorgeous shrine for his relics, and placed them
over the great altar of the church. Though St. Flann was first
bishop of the diocess, it takes its name from Lugad or Lua, or
Moluaof Clonfert Molua (the only parish in the Queen's county
belonging to Killaloe), or from Molua Lobhar, a great grand uncle
of St. Flan nan, or possibly, as the name may indicate, from both ;
Cill da Lua, the church of the two Moluas. The martyrology of
Tallaght commemorates Flannan Mac Toirdealbach on the 18th
of December, on which day his festival is still observed in the
diocess of Killaloe.

St. Otteran, patron of Waterford, is not mentioned by the ordi-
nary authorities. The name is probably the same as Odran, which
occurs in the Martyrology of Tallaght, and in iEngu§» on the 27th
of October, the day on which St. Otteran's feast is observed in the
diocess of Waterford. The Martyrology of Tallaght describes him
as Odran of Latteragh, a very remarkable place in ancient times,
a few miles south of Neuagh ; while in yEngus he is said to be
of Hy Columcille or Iona, where the famous cemetery of the Irish,
Scotch, and Danish kings is still, and always was, known by his
name, Keljc O&fiAjn, "Oran's cemetery," from the fact of his
being the first person buried in Hy, after St. Columba founded
there his monastery. But the St. Odran of Latteragh cannot be the
same as the St. Odran of Hy, for the former died in 549, fourteen
years before the arrival of St. Columba in that islaud. A third
St. Odran, disciple of St. Patrick, was also honoured, according to
some, on the 27th of October. Which of these, if any, is patron
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Dtteran. i.e. Killotteran, is a few miles west of the city of Water-
ford, on the banks of the Suir.

St. Carthage, bishop, patron of Lismore, was favoured with so
many gifts, spiritual and corporal, that he was beloved by God
and man, says his biographer, and was thence called Carthage,
that is, the amiable or beloved. He was of a noble family in
Kerry. When offered in his infancy the sword, and spear, and
shield, and the gold collar and rich robes of the chieftain, he pre-
ferred, he said, to learn the hymn which he had heard sung by St.
Carthage the Elder and his clergy, on the banks of the Mang.
His wish was gratified, for he was adopted by his namesake, and
ordained priest about the year 580. Before his arrival in the
monastery of Bangor, whither he went to complete his studies, an
angel, it is said, announced to St. Coragail the coming of a great
stranger. " By this you shall know him," said the angel, " that on
his way to the hotel he will never turn his back on the church,
for he loves to keep his eyes ever fixed on it." He remained with
St. Comgall a year, and after visiting St. Molua of Clonfert Molua
and other saints, he founded at Rahan, in the King's county, a mo-
nastery, wheip he became bishop, and resided for forty years, and
attracted a great community of disciples, not only from Ireland,
but from foreign countries. Expelled by the jealousy of some of
the clergy of the district, and the tyranny of the king, he departed,
in the year 630, with his whole community, numbering 847, ex-
clusive of lay attendants, and the children of his school. In this
emigration, they stopped first at St. Barrind's of Druracullen, in
Eglish; next at St. Kiaran's of Saighir, then at St Cronan's of
Roscrea, and at last at Cash el, where the king received him with
favour, and offered hira a grant for a monastery. Refusing tho
proffered favour, he proceeded southwards to Ardfinnan, and was
again offered a site by the chieftain of the Desies, whose wife, on
( the preceding night, had dreamed that a flock of birds flew for pro.
tection into her presence. But Carthage had not yet found the
plice of his resurrection. On his refusing again, " there is," said
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secluded, rich in forests aud in fish— it shall be yours for ever.*'
Accordingly, St. Carthage travelled over the mountain Slieve chua
to Ceallchochayer, a small church of St. Mochua Miannain, and
thence to Affane on the Avonmore, at the spot still called 44 the
path of the saints," 44 casan na naomh." A great work was to be
founded — a miracle in those troubled times — a college which for
many long centuries should escape the fate of Rahan, and become
a light to Ireland and to Europe. This work was heralded, says
the legend, by a miracle ; for as St. Carthage raised his hand over
the Blackwater within sight of Lismore, the waves rolled back and
the saint and his company passed over to Magh Sciath. He there
founded a monastery, a college, and an asylum for lepers, many of
whom he had brought with him from Rahan, and in course of trme
Lismore became a renowned and a holy city, full of churches and of
monasteries. The last year and a half of his life he spent to the east
of his great monastery, in a valley whither he had retired from the
agitation of business and the homage of strangers ; but, perceiving
that the older monks suffered in Ueir charitable visits to him, ho
begged to be carried home. Just as they were bearing him up the
hill, he saw the angel of God descending, and he ordered his monks
to lay him down and to prepare the Holy Eucharist. Having
received the body of Christ there at the well, where the cross
was erected thence called crux migrationit, " the cross of the de-
parture," he died in the year 637, on the 14th of May. On that
day his feast is marked in the aucient calendars and is still observed
in the diocess of Lismore, of which he was first bishop. Hit
virtues are thus summed up by his biographer : " Seniorum leva-
men, salus infirmorum, lugentium solamen, desperantium firina-
mentum, dubitantiutu certa fides, juvenumque stabiiitas." Vita S
Carthag.

AN TIP. AD MAGNIFICAT, OFFIC PROP.

Gloriose praesul Christi, venerande Carthace
Apud Deum tuo Sancto nos juva precamine.
Ut detersa omni sorde, et abluto crimine
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St. Jarlath, bishop, patron of Tuam, of the second class of Irish
saints. Born early in the sixth century of a noble family. He
was educated, according to one tradition, by St. Benignus, disciple
of St. Patrick. He established a monastery and school at Cluain-
fos, i.e. " the place of retreat," near Tuam, and among other dis-
tinguished pupils taught St. Colman, afterwards bishop of Cloyne,
and according to some, St. Brendan, bishop of Clonfert. By the
advice of the latter, who foretold that his resurrection would not
be at Cluainfos, he removed his establishment further east, to the
place where the church and town of Tuam were afterwards built
in his honour. In all the labours and anxieties of the episcopal
office, and in all the infirmities of an advanced old age, he perse-
vered in the austerities of his monastic life. His relics were pre-
served in a rich reliquary (scrinium), in a church thence called
Skreen, in the town of Tuam. Colgan speaks of them as if still
preserved in his time. Whether St. Brendan was or not a pupil
of St. Jarlath, the life of St. Ita, on which the affirmative rests,
proves the high estimation in which the Tuam school was long
held, beyond the limits of the province. The year of St. Jarlath'a
death is not known. His festival, marked in some calendars on
the 25th, and in others on the 26th, of December, is observed in
the diocess of Tuam on the 6th of June. Some prophecies re-
garding his successors, were attributed to St. Jarlath, the authen-
ticity of which was, however, not admitted by Colgan.

St. Nathy, patron of Achonry, son of Conamal and grandson of
Nial. Little is known of the. life of St. Nathy. About the
middle of the sixth century, St. Finnian of Clonard going to the
west of Ireland found there a holy priest, Nathi, for whom he
worked a miracle, and obtained a grant of that land on which
was subsequently erected the episcopal church of Achonry. In
the life of the virgin St. Attracta, an eminent patroness of Leyney,
St. Nathy is described as assisting her in protecting the immu-
nities of her monastery, against the exactions of an oppressive
chieftain. St. Nathy, like most of the great patrons of churches,
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of Fore. " My beloved son, Fechin," he one day exclaimed to
his monks, " is at this moment laying the foundation of a monas-
tery, whence himself and many other sons of life shall pass to the
Lord." The festival of St. Nathy was and is still observed on
the 9th of August, in the diocess of Achonry.

St. Asicus (Asaach), bishop, patron of Elphin. A disciple of St.
Patrick, who obtained from a druid the land on which the church
of Elphin was founded. Asicus was its first bishop. Among the
different members of St. Patrick's household, to whom provision
for all the ecclesiastical wants of the infant church was committed,
St. Asicus is described as an artificer in brass — "faber aeris Pa-
tricii." In a penitential spirit, St. Asicus renounced the govern-
ment of his diocess, and retired to t lie mountains of Sliebh Liag
in the present county of Donegal, from which he could not be
persuaded to return. Died in his retreat, and was buried in the
church of Rathcunga in Tirhugh, Donegal. His name is in the
martyrology of Tallaght, on the 26th of April ; his f stival is ob-
served on the following day in the diocess of Elphin.

St. Colman Mac Duach, bishop and patron of the diocess of
Kilmacduach, and formerly patron of the royal tribe from which
he was descended, retired in his youth to a forest in the wild dis-
trict of Burren, on the borders of Clare and Gal way. Having
spent seven years in this retreat, in all the austerities of the ere-
mitical life, the fame of his sanctity attracted the admiration of
.he king of Connaught, who entreated him to accept whatever
land might be required for the foundation and support of a reli-
gious establishment. With this aid he erected, about the year
620, a church which became an episcopal sec, and which — if not
during his lifetime, not many years later — rivalled, in the extent of
its attendant religious establishments, the greatest foundations in
Ireland. The round tower, one of the largest in the county, and
the seven churches, unroofed, but otherwise perfect, still exist
In the isle of Arran, and in many other places in the province of
Connaught, numerous churches and oratories were dedicated to
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3rd of February, but his festival is observed on the 29th of October.

St. Muredach, bishop, patron of Killala. His father, Eochaidh,
was grandson of Lughaidh, king of Ireland ; and several of his
brothers especially St. Fursa are on the Irish calendars. Yet little
is known of his own history. With many other saints and prelates,
he assisted at a great assembly at Ballysadare, in the county of
Sligo, to honour St. Coiumba before his return to Britain. He
was first bishop of Killala. The year of his death is not known.
His feast is in the old calendars on the 12th of August, on which
day it is still observed in the diocess of Killala.

ST. CANICE.

St. Canice (Cainech), abbot, patron of the city of Kilkenny,
was born in Glengiven, the valley of the Roe, in the present
county of Londonderry, in the year 516. His father, Laidec, was
a distinguished poet and foster-father of the prince of his native
territory. About his fourteenth year St. Canice was sent to
Britain, where he studied for some time in Lancarvan, Glamorgan,
under St. Docus, and acquired all the ecclesiastical learning of the
day. He was also remarkable there for his virtues, especially his
obedience, of which he once gave a signal example, by leaving a
simple letter of the alphabet unfinished, when summoned by the
bell from writing to manual toil. He was ordained priest probably
in the year 546, and then proceeded to Rome, intending on bis
return to his native country to extirpate the remnants of paganism,
a resolution which he happily accomplished, for after escaping
many dangers on his journey and refusing, it is said, urgent en-
treaties to remain abroad, he returned to his native home.

His return may have been before the death of David, successor
of St. Patrick, aud legate of the holy see, in 550 ; it certainly was
before the death of St. Finian of Clonard, in 552, under whom he
lived some time with the twelve great saints who were called
the apostles of Ireland. When he went to his native place he
denounced the superstitions and exposed the delusions of the
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reputation acquired by this first work, was increased by his sub.
sequent visits to his home during his long life ; for he often passed
there in his frequent voyages to Britain, especially to his friend
St. Columcille. In the house of his sister Columba, at Airte, near
the coast beyond Glengiven, he cured St. Dercban who afterwards
founded the church of Clonsast, in the King's county. He also
converted bis foster-brother, the chief of Dungiven, who at first
ridiculed his admonitions, but terrified by an extraordinary illness,
he at length repented and assisted in founding, at Drumacbose.in
Londonderry, a church, where for more than a thousand years hi*
spiritual benefactor, St. Canice, was honoured as patron.

His intimacy with St. Columcille and St. Comgall, dates pro-
bably from this period, if it had not already been contracted with
the former at the school of Clonard. On his return from Rome
he found Derry already flourishing; and in 552. Durrow, in the
King's county, the other famous abbey of St. Columba, and
Bangor, the great abbey of St. Comgall, were established. Events
in the early part of his life are connected with those two illus-
trious saints. On a visit to St. Comgall he preached so eloquent
a sermon that the people were all in tears. " Never before" said
St. Comgall, " have I seen so great fruit from a sermon." To which
St. Canice replied with his usual expression, " the Son of the
Virgin knows" (scit filius virginis), that if their hearts have been
softened it is his work not mine: what I announced, I heard
yesterday from the good angel of the Lord." Again in a legend,
which may be taxed with partiality for his patron, the biographer,
relates that St. Canice, St. Comgall, and St. Columba, being over-
taken by a storm, neither snow nor rain rested on St. Canice.
Each then told what he had been thinking of durine the tempest:
** My thoughts" said St. Columba, " were about some of my
monks now exposed to the danger of the sea." " And mine," said
St. Comgall, 44 of my monks engaged in the labours of the har-
vest." 44 The Son of the Virgin knows," said St. Canice, 44 that
mine were in spirit with the angels of God." But the time was
coming when he too should have paternal anxiety for his 14 family,"

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the endearing expression of the annals for the monastic brother-
hood.

According to the life of St. Com gall, he and St. Canice accom-
panied St. Columba in the first interview with Brude, king of the
Picts, when that monarch, after a haughty resistance, at length
received the yoke of the gospel. It is not probable that before
that event, which occured in the year 565, St. Canice had travelled
much beyond his native province in Ireland. In Scotland, where
he is called Kenzie, his name became celebrated either at this time
or in some later visit. Several of his miracles, in that country,
are recorded, and crosses, says his biographer, are standing to this
day to attest them. On one occasion, indulging as usual, his love
of retreat, he repaired thither with the intention apparently of not
returning, " but the saints of Ireland," says the biographer, " sent
messengers after St. Canice when they heard that he was a hermit
in Britain, and brought him home against his will." A small
island near Hy Columcille was called from him, Inchkenzie, and
a church was dedicated to his memory, in Hy Columcille itself.

For some time, probably in the earlier part of his life, St. Canice
lived at Clonbroney in Longford, a place celebrated for a convent
of nuns, founded by St. Patrick. This was rather a retreat than
a monastic establishment of St. Canice, one of those places to which
he retired from men, as was frequently his custom ; his wants
were supplied here, we are told, by supernatural means ; on one
occasion he ordered no person to go near him, and he remained
three days in ecstacy, absorbed in the study of the Gospel. His
first permanent establishment appears to have been at the place
called after his name, Kilkenny West, in the county of Westraeath.
A turbulent king of Meath, Coiman Beg Mac Diarmaid, who fills
a large space in Irish annals, from his invasion of the Scottish Isles,
in 5G5, to his death by the sword in 571, carried off by violence,
a nun, sister to St. Aidh, bishop of Killair. The bishop, according
to the custom of those tiroes, took up his position near the lake
in which his sister was held prisoner on an island, and there fasted
and prayed that the heart of the king might be moved. St. Canice

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came to his assistance, but the king hearing of his approach ordered
the boats to be drawn up, and all avenues to bis castle to be closed.
St. Canice coming down in the night, passed over the lake and
entered the castle. The king struck with terror at a chariot of
fire which he saw moving towards the island, confessed his crime,
delivered up the nun to her brother, St. Aidh, and made a grant
of that island and castle to St. Canice, who dwelt there and
established a church. The lake (Stagnum Rossum), if not that
now called Makeegan, is probably one of those in Lough Ree, or
the arm of the Shannon, to this day included in the parish of
Kilkenny West. Some years later, in winter, St. Canice travelling
in Breffny rested at a cross in Ballaghanea, parish of Lurgan,
Cavan, before which he performed the devotion of None. Inquiring
whose cross this was, he was informed that it was here Colman
Beg Mac Diarmaid had fallen in battle. I remember." said St.
Canice, " that I promised him a prayer after his death," and turning
his face to the cross he prayed with tears until the snow, and the
ice melted around him, and he delivered from torments the soul
of Colman Beg.

The precise date of his great establishment of Achadbo, in the
Queen's County, cannot be determined, but it was probably before
the year 577. He had received several grants of land from the
prince of Ossory, within whose territory Achadbo was situated.
In the year 582, Fcradach, the prince, having fallen " by the hands
of his own people," his son Colman was exposed to imminent
danger from his enemies, Maolodhar and Macliath, who disputed
his accession. St. Canice grateful for the favours received, hastened
from Aghavoe to his assistance. A mount at a place called
Acuthuch Mebri, was long shown, from which he ascended a
chariot (for he was of small stature), kindly offered by a woman to
hasten his speed. As he was going along he met an enemy of
Colman. " I know" said be " where you are going, but it is useless
you will find his throat cut and his body half burned." " The Son
of the Virgin knows" answered St. Canice, " that the facts are very
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you will be dead yourself," a prediction which was too truly
verified. Arriving in a hurry at the castle, St. Canice found it in
flames and surrounded by enraged soldiers. He passed through
the flames, and brought out Colman unhurt and conveyed him
safely to a retreat far from the castle. " Fear not" said he, " you
are alone this day, but you shall have three to-morrow; three
hundred on the day after, and on the third day you shall be king
of all Ossory." Colman accordingly recovered the kingdom of his
father, and after a long reign, died in 601, a few years after his
protector, St. Canice. Some time after the foundation of Aghaboe,
St. Columcille told his monks one day to prepare for guests who
were arriving. They asked who could arrive safe at their island
on a day so stormy. "St. Canice, the saint of God, and his
family," answered Columba. And shortly after they arrived in port,
the waves though mountains high on all sides, having left a small
space around their little ship, calm and clear as glass. On another
visit to St. Columba, then in the island of Hymba, with the three
great founders of monasteries, St. Comgall, St Brendan of Clonfert,
and St. Colman ua Liathain, the miracle occurred recorded by
St. Adamnan, a bright fire appearing over the head of St. Columba
celebrating mass in presence of the other saints.

In his life there is no mention by name of Kilkenny, the most
remarkable place with which his name is connected, and where
he is still honoured as patron. It is, however, very probably the
scene of that remarkable occurrence, which it is stated he knew
by inspiration, though far distant at the time, viz., the murder of
a monk named Sechneron, who cried to him for assistance, because
he had made over to St. Canice, his family, his lands, and him-
self. These lands lay, it is said, in south Leinster, a name which
cannot include any known foundation of St. Canice, except the
city of Kilkenny itself. The position of Kilkenny, moreover, be-
tween the two ancient seats of the prince of Ossory, Gowran and
Kells (Ceanlios t. e. Headfort), marks it as his foundation ; for
it is incredible that no church of his protector, St. Canice, would
be founded near the home of Colman Mac Feradach.

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Like his holy contemporaries he often exercised his influence
against barbarous customs. All the people being one day
assembled with their king, a little boy was dragged out by the
common men to suffer the dreadful torture called " giallcherd,"
the punishment inflicted probably on the hostages of those who
violated their engagements. The spears were fixed upright in the
ground and the boy was seized, when St. Canice seeing the horrible
preparation, earnestly remonstrated with the king, but in vain.
Custom would have its victim had not the Almighty, at the prayer
of St Canice, miraculousy saved the child, who when flung on the
spears was neither killed nor torn. However, the terror of the
horrible death to which he was doomed had distorted his eyes, so
that he was called, thenceforward, Lebdearc. Struck by his
wonderful preservation, the king gave him lands ; and he became
a great and a holy man, and he founded a church, around which
grew up a town, called from his name Killdolne Lebdearc.

We have already seen that St. Canice once retired to Britain,
h tending to remain there as a hermit, and it is clear from several
passages in his life, that he frequently sought relief from the
responsibilities of office by retiring to solitude, in Ireland, frorr
which he was brought back against his will. One of his retreats
in a wood 44 with the angels/' was known only to a little boy who
used to recite the psalms with him; but the monks watching
this companion going out at night, were guided by a brilliant
light which they saw preceding him, and shining with additional
lustre over the spot where the saint was concealed. His most
famous retreat was in Inis Loch cree, or Monahincha, near Roscrea,
where he at one time fasted forty days. It was here that he com-
posed his work on the gospels , known as theGlas Canech, orCate
na or Commentary of St. Canice. Here also he acquired the divine
eloquence that once elicited the warmest commendations of St.
Columcille in H>\ When all were admiring him, 14 where" said St.
Columcille, " did you learn this eloquence r " " The Son of the
Virgin knows," answered St. Canice, "that I learned it in Inis
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self that taught me whatever good I have announced." This
retreat was discovered by an adventure not unusual in the lives
of the Irish saints. A stag, pressed by the hounds, took refuge
in the island ; the huntsman in pursuit discovered our saint, who
pledged him not to divulge the secret, except on his death-bed.
The pledge was given ; but no sooner had he arrived home than he
fell into a mortal sickness ; the secret was made known, and St.
Canice was once more brought home to his monastery. Kilkenny
itself was probably one of these retreats ; for the Kilcreen river,
(Loch cree?) which now divides the Irish and English towns,
must have flowed through a marsh from Kenny's well to the Nore
before the foundation of the church and city. It is this love of
solitude that Cuimin of Connor, gives as the characteristic of
St. Canice, in his little poem on the principal Irish saints. In
another very ancient authority he is compared to St. Philip, who
was celebrated in St. Cummian's hymn on the apostles, for his

burning eloquence.

Oris lampadis eloquentis Philippi
Opem oremua prole cum pervigili.

His holiness made for him, as usual, friends and enemies. Several
instances are recorded of the extraordinary protection of God.
On one occasion his house was burned in his absence by robbers,
everything except the case iu which he kept his books was destroyed,
but the malefactors were struck with sickness, and they repented and
became docile monks under his care. Three persons at another time
lay in wait for him near his monastery, and catching him alone as-
sailed him, and stripped him of his linen robe, and shouted in triumph
and derision, that " the little man with the staff" (modiens bacu-
latus) should no more interfere with them, nor seduce so many
followers. They were going off with their spoil, but suddenly
they were visited by God, and could not find their way to escape.
In one legend the devils are represented as compelled by his orders
to confess the truth, to give good advice to a youth, whom he
found it difficult to convert.

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could enjoy the society of three of the most distinguished orna-
ments of the monastic institute in Ireland, St. Brendan of Birr,
St. Pulcherius or Mochaomog of Leemokeevogue near Thurles,
and of St. Fintan of Clonenagh. In the life of St. Aid, bishop of
Killair, we read, that when he was a boy he wandered into a
lonely and wooded island, and found there St. Canice and St.
Brendan of Birr, in a little church, engaged in earnest conference
on the scriptures which they were studying together. In the life
of St. Mochoemoc or Pulcherius also, miracles are recorded which
St. Canice at several visits to Leemokeevogue worked in that mon-
astery. It was distant only one day's journey from Achaboe. St.
Mochoemoc, who was one of the most distinguished pupils of St.
Ita, was much younger than St. Canice, and seems to have re-
garded him with the affection due to bis spiritual father. St.
Fintan of Clonenagh, called by old writers the Father of Irish
Monks, and the Benedict of Ireland, also a contemporary and
friend, followed his spiritual counsels. The austerities in Clonenagh
were so rigid, that many holy men in the neighbourhood resolved
to moderate them, and St. Canice being invited with others re-
monstrated and prevailed on St. Fintan to relax, at least for his
monks, something of his rigor. The friendship of St. Fintan may
be estimated from the character given of him by St. Columba. St.
Columban of Oughaval (in Stradbally), when leaving Hy, where
he had lived some years in his youth, under the spiritual care of
St. Columba, exclaimed full of anxious affection at his departure :
O ! Saint of God, how can I live in my own country and confess
my sins to thee." Columba answered him : " Go to the holy man
whom I see every Sunday night standing with the angels before
the tribunal of Christ." The holy youth asked who was that
saint ?" St. Columba answered : " Saint, indeed, he is, and comely,
and of your own kindred, with florid complexion and bright eyes,
aud a few gray hairs now beginning to appear." The young man
answered: " I know no such person in iny own country except St.
Fintan of Clonenagh." With such friends St. Canice, in all the
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an advanced old age continued to approach nearer to the perfect
imitation of his Divine Master.

It was probably not long before his death that the remarkable
miracle occurred recorded by St. Adamnan. St. Columba return-
ing from Ireland to Hy, was overtaken by a violent tempest.
Every wave threatened instant death. The monks cried out to
him to pray to God for protection, but he answered that the holy
abbot, Canice, alone could protect them in this danger. At the very
moment St. Canice, in his monastery at Aghaboe, heard by reve-
lation of the Holy Ghost, the voice of St. Columba speaking to his
heart. Starting from the refreshment which he was taking, with
his monks at the hour of None, he rushed to the chapel exclaim-
ing, " No time to dine when Columba's ship is struggling with the
waves. He has just called on Canice, by name, to pray to Christ
for himself and for his companions in danger." Having entered
the chapel he prayed for a short time on his knees. The Lord
heard his prayer, the tempest instantly ceased ; the sea became
perfectly calm. St. Columba seeing in spirit St. Canice hastening
to the church said, " O Canice. I know that God hath heard thy
prayer ; well for us that thou hast run with one sandal so quickly
to the church" — for in his haste he had dropped the other. The
prayers of both saints co-operated in this miracle, observes the holy
biographer, an example of the blessings God grants through the
communion of saints.

At the advanced age of eighty-four years, St. Canice having
survived most of his great contemporaries, died in the year 598, in
his monastery at Aghaboe. He received before his death from St.
Ttntan (Mael dubhj of Clonenagh, the communion of the body and
blood tf Christ.

. Histoiy has preserved an almost unbroken succession of abbots
in Aghaboe, from the death of its holy founder to its suppres-
sion in the reign of Henry VIII. It was frequently pillaged
and burned by the Danes, but was rebuilt in 1052 and the shrine
of St. Canice replaced in it. Even when the cathedral had been
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and relics appear to have still remained at Aghaboe, until they
were destroyed in the year 1346, when the town and abbey were
burned by Dermod Mac Gilpatrick. Aghaboe at present is a ruin,
its walls nearly perfect, but like too many similar edifices in Ire-
land, all profaned by sickening desecration. Around it still bloom
in perennial verdure its far-famed pastures, on a plain naturally
rich, and improved by the monastic culture of a thousand years.
The buildings are now used as ox-pens, which were once the
favourite home of the pilgrim and stranger; for in an ancient poem
attributed to St. Columba, one of his wishes was a feast with
its founder, St. Canice :

20o pent no CAjD&eclj bo b<v6 meAlUcb.
" My feast with Canice was indeed delightful/'

St. Canice is honoured as patron of the city and suburbs of Kil-
kenny on the 11th of October. On that day his feast is also
observed in the general ordo of the Irish clergy, since the year
1741, by an indult obtained on the representation of Dr. Thomas
de Burgo, bishop of Ossory, and author of the 41 Hibernia Domini-
cans." The cathedral of St. Canice is one of the most ancient and
remarkable in Irelaud, and well known in the history of the Irish
Catholics since the Reformation.

To this brief sketch of the life of St Canice we add a document
(Appendix No. 1) which the writer saw for the first time, in July,
1848, when through the kindness of the Rev. Joseph Postlewhite,
S.J., he had access to the MS. in the library of Stonyhurst. It is
an authentic account of the solemn act by which the city of St.
Canice was placed by the Confederate Catholics under the special
patronage of the Blessed Virgin Mary. After that document we
give for the devout clients of St. Canice, on the banks of the Nore,
the proper Mass (Appendix No. 2) approved by Pope Clement
XII. for his festival, and published at Paris by Antoninus O'Kenny
in the year 1734. After diligent inquiry the writer can see no
reason why that Mass may not be said, at least in Kilkenny, on the
11th of October, for so late as the year 1786 the Bollandists from
whom it is copied, describe it as "edited by order of Clement XII.

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and prescribed for the XI. of October." Indeed the publication
and adoption of the proper masses for all the patron saints of
Ireland, approved at the same time by the pope, might be perhaps
not unworthy of consideration, by their successors in the hierarchy
of Ireland.

APPENDIX No. 1.

Stony hunt, Nov. 21«f, 1855

EXTRACT FROM A M8. BOOK IN THE LIBRARY OF STONY HURST.

Deipara virgo speciali et publics solemnitate in civitatis Kilkenniae

patron am electa.

Residentia Kilkenniensis
Ex tribus quas percensuimus Residentiis aliae supcrstites ad
paucos annos steterunt, quarum primas semper xulit Residentia
Kilkenniensis, et numero personarum, et scholarum splendore, et
celebritate concionum, et exercitio reliquarum functionum So-
cietatis.

Nostri, prater cceteros laborum suorum fructus, uniyersam civi-
tatem, arrepta occasione ex imminentibus pestis et belli miseriis
ad singularem Deiparse cultum excitarunt. Constat hac de re
tractatus plenus et integer, a quodara nostro conscriptus. Sum ma
haec est: Deipara Virgo speciali et publico, solemnitate in civitatn
patronam electa, Statutus solemnitati dies per octiduum : praeludii
loco varia pietalis et misericordiae opera a civibus exercebantur :
generalis tota civitate communio certo die instituta ; quo die so-
lemne sacrum in templo Deiparse Virginis in ejus honore de pa
factum. Illius status in medio templo tota die cum tcedis, sanc-
torum reliquiis, vexillis, aliisque ornamentis ad veuerationem ex-
posita. Vespere ad populum habita concio ; a concione solemnis
supplicatio per civitatem ducta. Adfuerunt Episcopus, Comites,
Vicecomites, Magistratus, universa denique civitas cum tcedis, la-
baris, aliisque pietatis insignibus. Status ipsa in splendido taber-
naculo affabre et sumptuose ad hoc comparato, in publico foro
collocata et omnium venerationi est exposita; sonantibus tota
civitate templorum campanis, et addito solemni tormentorum et

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sclopetorum sonitu. Lit anise Beatae Virginia Lturctanae, aHseque
pieces publice in foro decantatae et solemnes rogi in omnibus civi-
tatis plateis accensi : et hie mos singulis deinde sabbatinis diebus
rite servatur, praemissa semper in ipso foro ab uno e nostris brevi
condone. Mirum quanta subito morum et animoruro facta est
mutatio: pessimus jurandietblasphemandi mos omnino profligatus,
sacramentorum frequentia, Rei sacrae cultus inductus. Tanta in
Deiparam pietas cives invasit, ut mane, nieridie, vespere cernere
esset in foro publico viros, mulieres, pueros, flexis in ipso luto
genibua ad Deipare Virginis statuam (frendentibus nequicquam
haereticis) orare. (a.d. 1642.) See Translation, p. 152.

J. POSTLE WHITE, SJ.

APPENDIX No. 2.

DIE XI. OCTOBRI8.

Mtasa de S. Canicio, abbate, civit. Kilken. et suburb. Sancto
Patrono; jussu Clementis XII. edita.

Introitus.

Tenuisti manum dexteram et in voluntate tua deduxisti me, et
cum gloria suscepisti me, Deus cordis mei et pars mea in aeter-
num. •

Psal — Quoniam bonus Israel Deus, his qui recto sunt corde.
Gloria Patri, &c.

Oratio.

Deus omnipotens cujus servitus summa et plena est felicitas,
praesta quaesumus nt Beati Canicii imitatione subjecti invicem in
timore Christi, quasi filii obedientiae, tibi libera charitate in sanc-
titate et justitia serviamas. Per eundem Dominum nostrum, &c.
Lectio Epietol* beati Pauli apottoli ad Romano*. — Rom. cap. xii

Fratres, obsecro vos. Dilectio sine simulatione. Odientes ma-
lum ; adhaerentcs bono : charitate fraternitatis invicem diligentes :
honore invicem praavenientes : solicitudine non pigri : spiritu fer-
ventes: Domino servientes: spe gaudentes: in tribulatione pa-
tientes: orationi instantes: necessitatibus sanctorum communi-

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cantes: hospitalitatem sectantes. Benedicite persequentibus vos :
benedicite, et nolite maledicere. Gaudere cum gaudentibus, flere
cum flentibus: Idipsum iuvicem sentientes: non alta sapientes,
sed humilibus consentientes. Nolite esse prudentes apud vosme-
tipsos : nulli malum pro malo reddentes : providentes bona non
tantum coram Deo, sed etiara coram omnibus bominibus. Si fieri
potest, quod ex vobis est, cum omnibus bominibus pacem baben-
tes : non vosmetipsos defendentes charissimi, sed date locum irae,
scriptum est enim : mibi vindicta : ego retribuara, dicit Dominus.
Sed si esurierit inimicus tuus, ciba ilium : si sitit, potum da illi,
hoc enim faciens, carbones ignis congeres super caput ipsius. Noli
vinci a malo, sed vince in bono malum.

Grad. — Lucerna pedibus meis verbum tuum Domine et lumen
semitis meis.

V. Custodivi vias Domini, et justitiaa ejus non repuli a me.
Alleluia, Alleluia.

R. Ecce vere Israelita in quo dolus non est ; vir erat rectus ac
timens Dominum et recedens a malo.

Sequent ia Sancti Evangelii secundum Mattheum. — Matt. xix.

In illo tempore, unus accedens ad Jesura,ait illi : Magister bone,
quid boni faciam ut habeam vitam aeternam? Qui dixit ei: Quid
*ne interrogas de bono ? Unus est bonus, Deus. Si autem vis
ad vitam ingredi, serva man data. Dixit illi : Quae ? Jesus autem
dixit : Non homicidium facies : non adulterabis : non fades furtum :
non falsum testimonium dices: bonora patrem tuum, et matrem
tuam : et, Diliges proximum tuum sicut teipsum. Dicit illi ado-
iescens : omnia baec custodivi a* juventute mea, quid adhuc mibi
deest? Ait illi Jesus: Si vis perfectus esse, vade, vende quae
babes, et da pauperibus, et habebis tbesaurum in coelo : et veni,
sequere me. Cum audisset autem adolescens verbum, abiit tristis :
erat enim habens multas possessiones. Jesus autem dixit disci-
pulis suis : Amen dico vobis, quia dives difficile intrabit in regnum
coelorum. Et iterura dico vobis : Facilius est camelum per fora-
men acus transire; quam divitem intrare in regnum coelorum.

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Auditis autem bis, discipuli mirabantur valde, dicentes ; Quia ergo
poterit salvus esse? Aspiciens autem Jesus, dixit illis: Apud
homines hoc impossibile est : apud Deum autem omnia possibilia
sunt. Tunc respondens Petrus, dixit ei: Ecce nos retiquimus (
omnia, et secuti sum us te : quid ergo erit nobis ? Jesus autem
dixit illis : Amen dico vobis, quod vos qui secuti estis me, in re-
generatione, cum sederit Filius hominis in sede majestatis suae,
sedebitis et vos super sedes duodecim, judicantes duodecim tribus
Israel. Et omnis qui reliqucrit domum, vel fratres, aut sorores,
aut patrem, aut matrem, aut uxorem, aut filios, aut agros, propter
nomen meum, centuplum accipiet, et vitara aeternam possidebit.
Multi autem erunt primi novissimi, et novissimi primi.

Offertorium.

Jacta super Dominom curam tuam et ipse te eoutriet, et delectare
in Domino et dabit tibi petitionem cordis tuL

Secreta.

Suscipe, quaesumus Domine preces et bostias quas tibi offerimus
et concede ut beati Canicii imitatione, desideria carnis spiritu mor-
tificantes tibi soli serviamus. Per Dominum, &c.

CommuntOm

Tu es spes mea Domine ; portio mea in terra viventium.

Po$tcommunio.

Deus cordis nostri et pars nostra in aeternum, hujus perceprionc
sacramenti tribue nobis intercedente beato Canicio, ut tibi nni ad-
haereamus in terris, a quo speramus aeternam hereditatem in cuelis.
Per Dominum, &c.

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CALENDAR OF IMSH SAINTS.

TRANSLATION OF APPENDIX NO I.

The Virgin Mother of God, with due public solemnity, elected
patroness of the city of Kilkenny.

Of the three Residencies above-mentioned, some survived for a
few years ; of which Kilkenny was always the most distinguished,
for the number of its inmates, the fame of its college, the elo-
quence of its preachers, and all other religious functions.

Besides the other fruits of their labours, our brethren (the
Jesuits), taking occasion from the impending scourge of war and
plague, excited in the whole city a singular devotion to the Mother
of God. There was a whole treatise on the subject by one of our
members. Its sum was what we have stated above. The solem-
nity being announced for eight days, the citizens performed
various works of piety and mercy, and all received communion on
the same day. A high mass of the Virgin was celebrated in St.
Mary's. During the whole day her statue was exposed to public
veneration in the church, surrounded with relics of saints, torches,
banners, and other ornaments. In the evening there was a ser-
mon, and then a suppliant procession through the streets, in which
the bishop, earls, viscounts, magistrates, and the whole city as-
sisted, with torches, banners, and other emblems of piety. The
statue was placed in the market place for public veneration, in a
splendid tabernacle of exquisite and costly workmanship ; the
bells of all the churches, and the pealing of cannon, proclaiming
a general jubilee. The Litany of our Lady of Loretto, and other
prayers, were chaunted aloud in the market-place; and festive
bonfires illumined every street. This custom was kept up every
Saturday, one of the Jesuits always giving a short sermon. A
wonderful reformation was speedily effected ; the wicked habit of
swearing and blasphemy was completely suppressed ; the sacra-
ments were frequented ; and the worship of the sacred relic (the
Holy Cross) introduced. Such was the devotion to the Virgin, that
morning, noon, and evening, they were to be seen in the streets —
men, women, and children — on their knees, even in the wet, pray-
ing before the statue, to the great annoyance of the heretics.

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PATRON SAINTS OF IRELAND,

FROM

-ENGHUS CEILE DE.

Thb following commemorations of the Patron Saints of Ireland
have been supplied by Eugene Curry, Esq., from the Metrical
Calendar of iEnghus Ceile De. That work was composed before
the year 800. It commemorates a few only of the most distin-
guished saints.

It does not come within our plan to give any notes on these
extracts. They must at once remind the learned reader of the
Ephemerides of the Greek Church. The rhyme and the sweet
metre greatly assisted the memory in retaining the names of the
patrons of each day, an advantage necessarily lost in a literal
translation. Such as it is, every one who takes any interest in the
literature and religion of ancient Ireland, would receive with plea-
sure the whole Calendar from the eminent professor of Irish His-
tory and Archaeology in the Catholic University.

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154 CALENDAR OF IRISII SAINTS*

Sept. 3 CoIttjatj bnornA retire

lOfJSATlAb 5n?Ao AlAjb

21)ac Kirre co tniMb
O cbonbenib TnAftAib.

Sept. 9 Sflori Ijcb IfnAr cnicbA

$)ac in cr*m cAfi r ni5 A '

l^e^l CAJO Cb!A1lAltJ CblUADA.

June 9 PoornADAc 000 bicbUjcb

Injbicbbi lerr Uinbnecb
l)Aecbioe Atib Ajnslecb
CoUtn Cjlle cAjnolecb*

Aug. 23 U pAir punciOAci

]n) AllUlD llf) CACb*

fort Aenljcb luAb becb*
fe]l Cosajij Ajnb rnAcb^.

Feb. 6 ¥ltibtieAr Anb a ott&An,

Crpoc St)oel, *iflb njse,

UlCjA COI)A]I)e

Nac euiQr<^15rec tnjle.
June 7 CosAinm poil in ttjAnqn

1ATI Tt)0\i 31)1"? CO CAlCCAf

pejl CoIatto cen elccA
1o tnoin injc buj at>cai

Sept. 22 t>o JttbornTjAn jAe

2ll*A cojblecb coioen
Ro bm 1ru uat/aI
SAertAt) buAn bAijn soet>e1

June 3 Sfyl Cnjfx 1 cwcl) n eneob

2l|ib Anjtn bATi cuiob ciiecb^n
Coeroset) CAib CA|i) cAjcbpen,
21 DSlinb bA Ifob lectjAn.

PATRON SAINTS. J 55

Se;>t. 3 Colroan oAjDrom-ferta,

Longaradh, the splendid sun,
Mac Nitse with his thousands
From great Conderaibh.

Sept. 9 Great solemnity which fills territories,
Which shakes the swiftest ships ;
The son of the carpenter, who outstrips kings,
The noble feast of Ciaran of Cluain.

J^fVi- 9 May they convoy us to eternal kingdom,
To the eternal, bright, shining life—
Baethine the illustrious, angelic,
Colum Cille the brilliant.

Aug. 23 With the passion of Purtinatus,

With whom went forth a battle number,
Upon the same life-speaking solemnity,
Is the festival of Eoyhan of Ard-Sratha

Feb. 6 Andreas, high his dignity;

Bishop Moel (Mel)— a kingly diadem ;

Lucia the happy,

Whom thousands could not move.

June 7 The calling of Paul the martyr
After great and powerful deeds;
The festival of Co I am, without guile,
The great son of Ua Artai.

Sept. Of Adamnan of Iae,

Whose associates were brilliant,

The glorious Jesus besought,

To free permanently the Irish women.

Ju.je 3 The soldier of Christ, in the land of Erinn,
Noble name over the billowy ocean,
Coemhghin the chaste, noble warrior
In the Glen of the two broad lakes.

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May 3 Pni") *W ec cbnATOb *iw?cbc f

CniTX co ujlun buAjbe,

t>Af CofJblAfb CAjt) A]5e

Feb. 1 SOonAiu CAlAinb febtiA],

ftiorr n?Attcm m&V uslebeijb,
t)W51 c b£u> bAlcc rjuAUon,
Ceijb CAjb cAjllecb nenenb.

April 18 ^nroc bl reil Sepqiu

SAen beocbAjn bo bjbijAb
Uirnet) Urr^n buAbAcb
Stbb lecb3Mn&e l]5Acb.

March 5 Ho lebUjtJS ni bAlbbA

& cblu bAn rAl rAjfibe,

CA|tcl)ACl) ni5 &A nUAH)Acb
CiAtiAij rhiA5Acb 5a|5tic.

Jan. 31 Slu^b Aeb |roticnen FennA

2f)oelAi)i:Aib A]Tut> ncnjAin,
foenAjc co njbni3 no W>W
ijAnnriob iron rlUA5 enAjn.

Oct. 11 t)]c Ada a i)bmn? A in&

1i) cnm inmAbeip
Fojtccbenn, tonjAn Ujijbecb,
CA|f)becb ti>ac uf t>AlAi)b.

Sept. 12 CelebAjn fejl 17 21/lbe,

ri^Tt> roncbAi rnATnA]5

U re]l Uirnei) l]3*T5»
O t)Airi)inir bAU|3.

NOV. 24 lA ClAfJAf) bO|Tl)l]AC

Cai?) b]Ar b|Afi cufninf

?J)ac leu rue no lA]ob
Ia CoIujai) t>uibcbuil]nb.

PATRON SAINTS. 157

May 3 The Chief Finding of the Tree of the Cross
Of Christ, with many virtues,
The death of Condlaedh, noble chief:
The great festival' of the Virgin Mary.

Feb. 1 The Calends of February are magnified
By a galaxy of martyrs of great valour ;
Bridget, the spotless, of loudest fame,
Chaste head of the nuns of Erinn.

April 18 We count the festival of the seven

Noble, protecting deacons ;

With Laisrinn of burning virtues

Abbot of bright-shining Leithglinn.
March 5 The silent man went

With his renown over the sea eastwards,

Carthach the regal, of Rome,

Ciaran, with his hosts of Saighir.

Jan. 31 Let us name Aedh (Moedoc) of the hosts of Fern a,

Moelanfaidh of happy career;

They belong, with exceeding virtue,

And Barrfinn, to the host of January.
Oct. 11 Noble is the phalanx •

Of the three whom I mention,

Fortchern, Loman the shining

Camdech the son of Ui Daland.
Sept 12 Let us celebrate the festival of Ailbhe,

With Fleidh, the bright, protecting—

With the festival of bright Laisren

Erom Damh-Inis of the assemblies.
Nov. 24 With Cianan of Damhliag,

A noble ear of our wheat,

Mac Leinine the splendid,

With Colman of Dubh-Chuilind.

• The Conception, honoured on the 8th of December in other martyrolo-
gies, and on thi* day by the Irish. BoliandisU, Pretermit on 3rd of May!

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158 CALENDAR OF IRISH SAINTS.

Aug. 14 Ia 5*mn) FunrunAcn

2I)ac jo crAem cAin cjnjbib

fell FActjCDAf, TWAC 1DOD5A15

May 16 Co5A]ttn) bnenAiijo CluAfiA,

IT 70 TI)b|CblAlcb Tl)bUAbA]3,

bAr ca]& cbAnois nnbAjic
Feil An u Suai)Aj5.

Dec. 18 ^lADDAf) ^lA|cb da cen&r*f

?0Ai5i)en& njAic!) jo njjn&A,
t>icuill, ?T)oelTiuAii) |iA|ce (
KopAc jrAjlce FWnjrA.

Sept. 25 Ia clew Cureb]

SAetiAt cecb rlejo tofiqtAjb,

Ia iicb ?n nn rencAis

Fefl l)Aiftfie o CIjottcAis.

Jan. 2 Crot>in ft) ceprcop,

2lbb ecAjlfe Ajnoe,
yO*wbwe An einse
Scujcfjine rnino n)A]|t3 e *

•

May 14 CononA ocur Ujccott

Coo a dent cei> njAcljin)
^ofi oen licb lem rucb^in
Fell cbAin CbA|ic))Ai3 Kal^o

Aug. 12 CosAtntn Uirneo. 1nore

iW)uiitebAi5 Tnom njodjcA],
Co clein noein? dad Aicljbe,
feil Sesenj xoc\)\A).

Aug.9 Tez\) Iac pAir tlnzot)]

Fltiou jronxnen tnumcefi;
In 2lct)uo caw clAocAft
t^Aljn cfteoAl Cftujrncljen.

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Aug. 14 With the calling of Fortunatus
Over the broad, ship-sailing sea;
The son of the carpenter, a noble victim ;
The festival of Fachtna, the hairy child.

May 16 The calling of Brenainn of Cluain

To the everlasting triumphant kingdom ;
The chaste, devout, steadfast Cairnech,
The happy festival of Ua Suanaigh,

Dec. 1 8 Flannan, the king of meekness,
Maighnend, a goodly diadem,
Dicuill, Maelruan we invoke —
May they have welcome for me.

Sept. 25 With the clergy of Eusebius,

Who kept free of all excess in feasting ;
With the festival of the beloved man,
The feast of Bairre of Corcach.

Jan. 2 Esodir the bishop,

Abbot of an illustrious church ;

Mainchin of Eirge,

Scuithin, the diadem of Mairge.

May 14 Corona and Victor,

With their company without deduction;
Upon the same bright, perpetual solemnity,
The noble feast of Carthach of Raithin.

Aug. 1 2 The invocation of Laisren of Inis ;

Muiredhaigh, great and wonderful ;
With his holy, unfailing company,
The festival of the renowned Segenh

Au£. 9 Remember the passion of Antonins,
Of Firmus (?) of brave family ;
In Achadh Cain was buried
Nat hi the devout priest.

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160 CALENDAR OF IRISH SAINTS.

Oct. 27 eftcc dotijijajs njojfi njAjnecb,

JttbbAt) Abb CA]n cljATtAcb

ot>nAt> Abb r-^en rnAtDAcb

ColmAl) UA F]ACl)flACb.

CHARACTERISTIC VIRTUES OF IRISH SAINTS,

By CUIMIN of CONNOR.
CAfiAf P^vcnttic Puirtc 2HACA,

$t)ac ^ipnuTon, r& b-fcn*> ni*o A fl»

Hocatv 11)6 pjAn b'A p]Ai)Alb.

CA|\Ar Colum c^iS C]Ue,
2T)ac Fei6t]T0]6; a n-ojlittte,
tlfn Ia6 tie reAcorijuin ^a conp,
Mf &o f-Art^A6 bocc at) einpoAcc.

CAtlAf t>Wjl& beADHACOAC

CnAbA6 bUAn, UATi bo beAtjcA
1on5Uine, ir ipoc-emioe,
Fe|ie le treAtiAfb feAttcA

CAftAr %)ocz& ItiiWo
Z\\e tujacc if ctte
3aij n)fti o-Atjoluino jha cojtp
bocc jrfif T*® ^eAb bl|A6A|n

CAtiAf feiccio riAl ffcbum,
WocAtt be ao crvfcbA6 b^eAjAc,
t)o cuineAo a eArt)A ctiuaJ
Ke CATtCA^n cttUAjd 5A0 eAbAc.

CAflAT ClAfliVT) C&]& ClUAljA,

Uri)Al6it> n'Aji 6|Ai) do dcasojI
]f oj tdh\X}\\.z of da© 5A01,

t^m tiu ttjijAoi. 6 no SeAtjAin.

» ••Odratu the noble, swimming abbot." Because it was by swimming he
got into Gair-lnis. now Gar-inis, in the barony of Kenmare, Co. Kerr>\tne
property of the Earl of Dunraven, where he founded a monastery.

t This poem by Cuimin of Connor, on the characteristic virtues of novae
eminent Iribh saints, is cited frequently by Colgan, and some of the atanaas

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CHARACTERISTIC VIRTUES. 16 1

Oct. 27 Ere of wealthy Domhnach Mor,
Abban, a noble, popular abbot,
Odhran, the noble, swimming abbot *
Caiman Ua Fiacbrach.

CHARACTERISTIC VIRTUES OF IRISH SAINTS.f
By CUIMIN of CONNOR.

Patrick of Ard Macba's city, loved,

The son of Calphurnn, a noble rule,

From Shrovetide to Easter to refrain from food,

No penance of his was a greater penance.

Colum Cille, the famous, loved,

Son of Feidhlimidh, in his pilgrimage,

Never to take in a week into his body,

As much as would serve a pauper at one meal.

* Bridget of the benedictions, loved

Perpetual mortification beyond womanhood,
Watching and early rising,
Hospitality to saintly men.

MochtaJ of Lugh-magh loved,
By law and by rule,

That no rich food his body should enter,
For the space of one hundred years.

The hospitable Feichin§ of Fabhar loved,

It was not a false mortification

To lay his fleshless ribs

Upon the hard rocks without clothes.

Ciaran the famous, of Cluain,|| loved
Humility from which he did not rashly swerve,
And he never spoke that which was false j
Nor looked upon a woman from his birth.

were translated by him into Latin. A metrical translation into the same
language w*> made by Philip O'Sullivan Bear, for the BollandiaU. Cuimin
of Connor So rish«Mt, according to Colgan, about the year 656.

% Patron ot Lughma <h or Louth. $ Kore in Weatmeeth.

| Clonmacnoise iu King's County.

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1G2 calendar op ihish saints.

CAftAf bedAc* b^u]6e

CeAC i).AO]6eA6 ir cfo6i)ACA6
So beitteAd da sac buioe.

CAttAf SflolAjre At) Ioca
beic ? 5-CAtiCAitt cnuA]6 cloice
CeAC t)-Aoi6eA6 do reAttuib e]tteAt)t/
SAO D|CilCAD 5An CAotn eoicle.

CAttAf "bneAijuti)i)» h)t cttfcbAd,

t>o tteiT* a feAi)Aj6 a r A ")Ui,l,

SeACb rt)-bl]A6AnA Att twin At) n)ll-«)HP

bA6 t>OCA]tt AT) C6]r\ CTtAbAl6.
CAttAr ^Hf&e, tT)6tl AlcnO")f

Uii)Aldi& 6neAi) 5A1) coinneAri),
t*T t&rib a leAcAm ite l&tt
RlAii) niAii) ATI 5|t^6 At) C6]ri)de.

6 00 jAb ctMor jrfc A column

(lr ]ati t)A nor t>o ciuinim),

Nocati cAie r^lt t)& reine,
SOonumne Sle]be-Cuilinr).

CAtiAr CAOltDSft) ctto CUlbAHSt
£a b-obAin cn^bAi6 C|ieA6o|l
Na feAfAti) crie b]6e rfott
l)A tt)6|i At) o}on An 6eArt)Oin.

CAiiAf Ssuitji) t)A t5©l ")-b|i)t)»
1)eAr)t)Act> Att c*vc 00 n<>l nn e t
Slinotte i^lne, ucu-JeAU,
econtVA bo 50106 oije.

• Bishop of Ardcarna in Connaught.
t Loch Erne in Fermanagh.
t Patron of Clonfert, Kerry.

5 A Kerry legend in some versions of St Brendan's famous voyage.

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CHARACTFRISTIC VIKTCF.8.

Beo-Aedh* loved friendship
With all the saints of Erinn ;
A strangers' home, and presents
He would give to every person.

Molaise of the lakef loved
To be in a hard stone cell ;
Strangers' home for the wen of Erinn,
Without refusal, without a sign of inhospitality.

Brendan^ loved perpetual mortification
In obedience to his synod and his flock,
Seven years upon the great whale's back,§
It was a distressing mode of mortification.

Mide|| loved much of fosterage,**
Firm humility without dejection ;
Her cheek to the floor she laid not.
Ever, ever, for love of the Lord.

Since she bound the girdle upon her body,
And what I know is what I hear,
She eat not a full or sufficient meal,
Monuinne of Sliabh Cuilion.

■

Caoimhghinff loved a narrow cell,

It was a work of mortification and religion,

In which perpetually to stand,

It was a great shelter against demons.

ScuithinJ J of the sweet legends loved—
Blessingsonhimwho hath done so—
Beautiful and pure maidens,
And among them preserved his virtue.

fl St. Ita of Hy-Conaill in Limrrick.

Many great saints were brought up under her care.

St. Kevin of G endaloch.
XX Patro:i of Tcscoifin near Kilkenny. o

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CALENDAR OF IRISH SAINTS.

CAttAr CAjnneAC Al) 6fVAbAj6

be]6 An-bftttteib cttUAib, criAnnAi£,

CAttAr &ilbe Aei6eACAin,
Nogati be at) cttAbA* btteA5AC

flOCA CCAlDlS A CCOttp CIM**

bi* feAnit utt) bi>6 Yttio eAbAC.

CAtiAr Fjonncti Dftf-5AbAi)i),
beAnnACb 10SSI At/iA Anrt)A]t);

SeACb Tt)-bl]A6nA AT> A COTlTt3XT)U|b

5aij a fcujritjrioib fie cAltijAin.

CAtlAf t)AlbAC CAOli) ctijle

&l6rii$e teAtin bA tA^All
Noca txAttb torn tte a iAojb
2ln ccejn bf n« m An <*Ttj.

CAtiAf t>Atttuv, bfteo Af) eA51)A
Uii)Al6ib bo feAttAib borijAw

tfOGA b*f ACA]* Afl-eA3COt1)tlA|tC

Ve&c ijac beAtiAb bo cAbAfti

CAflAr #)OCOdA At) Ctt^bA]©,

no]me ijoca n-beAttOA neAc
leAfc A u-beArii)Ai6 &o 6en*f>

• Patron of the City of Kilkenny.

t They became so docile, according to the legend, that they allewed him
to use their antlers as a bookstand. , _ Itl ~, 0 t

t This verse has been so faithfully rendered into Latin by Philip O Sul-
livan Bear, that we must regret not having been able to find his complete

version of the poem :

Albeeus eeterna fuerit mihi laude canendus
Haud scio num vivat largior ulla manus
Unicus quidem Ule semper patron us egentum.
Vestibus hos, illos adjuvat icre, cibo.

^ Boll. A A. 8S. vol. xlill. p. 26.

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CHARACTERISTIC VIRTUES. 165

Cainnech* of the mortifications loved
To be in a bleak woody desert,
Where there was none to attend on hi in
But only the wild deer.f

AilbheJ lo?ed hospitality ;
That was not a false devotion
There came not into a body of clay
One who gave more food and raiment.

Fionnchu§ of Bri-Gobhara loved,
The blessing of Jesus upon his soul,
Seven years upon his chains,
Without ever touching the ground.

Dalbbach,|| the beautiful of Cuil, loved
To practice firm repentance ;
He put not his hand to his side
As long as he retained his soul.

Barra,** the torch of wisdom, loved
Humility towards all men ;
He never saw in pressing distress
Any person whom he would not relieve.

Mochudaft of the mortification loved,
Admirable every chapter of his history,
That before his time no person shed
Half as many tears as he shed.

$ Fionchu, Patron of Bri-Gobhann, in the County of Cork, who, according
to the legend, spent seven years in his cell, in the practice of a very singular
mjriification.

D Of Cuil Colulnge, in the County of Cork.

♦* Patron of Cork.

ft St, Carthage, Patron of Lismore.

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CALK.NDAR OP IHI9TI 8AINT3

CATiAr ColnjAn CAori) CIuaoa,
V\il6eAct> ne com rejre,
3 ac Aon oo njoUd 5Ai) locr,
W| cjseA* olc d'a ejrj.

CAttAf Faccda fei6]l
pojticeAbAl ca]c fte cojnne
Nj 6tibA|tc tM A "> nf bA6 TAi:,
2lco nj bA6 njA|6 |te a Coi.ik

CAflAf SeAl)AT) fAOtt OtM 1 ,

2Ua]C 5AC tfteASfiA &'a frteA" ,

ClUOCA 5AlA|l |I)A COttp,

t>o bAd Ion o olc boo eA5i)Ar.

CAftAf eAijt)A, ah& cn^bAft,

in ttfiuiijn buAj6 50 tn-binue
CAticAjTi fco clofc cttUAj6 cunj,\
t)o btieic c^c cum opne.

CAftAf punrA ffon cn&ibteAc,

M fnnnjrceAtt nf Bur aw-s
CiobttA 50 b-fruAina rneAccA
t>eAcoA t>o floinneAd prAlrnA.

C*tt A r WeAvuTHt HAori) beccujn,
C|iAbA6, Ait)5li6e f fo6Am

NCCA CCAlfJIC CA|l A 6dAb,

Hi bA6 bjtex^s in*v bA* b**eApA)l.
CA|tAr %t)&c C)\c]ce At) cttA^Aji

CAftCAltt CftUAlD Iff foDAt),

6 injo 50 Ca]i*5 66,

2lcb tija6 pAjn Asur bjolAft.

• Patron of Cloyne.

t Patron of Ross and Kilfeaura*

t Senanua of Iniacatby.

CHARACTERISTIC VIRTUES.

Colman,* the comely, of Cluain loved
Poetry by the sweet rule* of art ;
No one whom he praised as faultless
Ever came to evil afterwards.

Fachtna,f the generous and steadfast, loved
To instruct the crowds in concert,
He never spoke that which was mean
Nor aught but what was pleasing to his Lord.

Senan,J the noble invalid, loved—
Good was every response of his responses—
To have thirty diseases in his body,
A sufficient mortification to the sage.

Enda loved glorious mortification
In Arann,§ triumphant virtue !
A narrow dungeon of flinty stone,
To bring the people to heaven.

Fursa, the truly pious loved,
Nothing more admirable are we told of,
In a well as cold as the snow,
Accurately to sing his psalms.

Neassan.U the holy deacon, loved
An angelical, pure mortification,
There never came past his lips
Anything that was false or deceitful.

Mac Creiche.** the devout, loved

A hard and undefiled dungeon,

From Shrovetide to Easter would he subsist

Upon only bread and cresses.

5 In the isles of Arran, bay of Galwny.

P Of Mongrel near Limerick.

** Of Kilmacrahy near Imstimon, County Clare.

168 CALENDAR OF IKISH SAIST8.

CAftAr lAfCcfn teA&AfttAC
UitjAlofo 71 j JODAl),
Na fcAfAn) c^e b]ce ff°U»
Wo bfo6 A5 ojon feAti ^OurijAi).

CAttAf ?f)obe65 buAfiAC

fio ^]Tl feAf)U|6 T)A ftUl]C£

2ln cttAc bo t6]noeA6 a ceAnn
t)o cuineAd e r& cujce.

CAftAr lAfllA|63 UATAl,

CleifteAc n&c ccleAcoAd SAjore
Cnf ce& rleAcoujn 5*6 r-oi6c^,
Cn} ceo vleAcouio 5AC treAf5A|ti,

CAttAf Ullc&n a leAijbA,

CAttCAlft fTf)A CAOb CAIJA,

1r |:ocfiA 0 A6 U|r3e ^UAjft,
If A| J t*ot Ct\UA}6 00 CAftA6.

CAttAr CeAlUc hjac Conri)At£
CfiAbAd tto C|t*x]6 a co U 00
t)A|Ue, bu|6|ie, bACAjJe,
mi 0 a6 66 |:a 6&]l 00611^5.

CAtiAf KuA6&n 1*10 toctiA,
CArsAjoe no fcfiAj 0 caoaU
Ml b|06 0iTtb||t3 A]T)5eAl
21ft 5AC CAlOjeAl) nof CAflArH,

CAflAr |=1ACT)A t^fott CflfcOAd

FoificeA&Al cX\jc 50 ccdirr>lfoo.

6(tbuittc ni^rb btMACAti r*ic
SJicb n{ bA6 n)A|6 le a cojinoe.

• Patron of Freshford in Kilkenny, and of Usnaekea in Tipperary.
t Mobheog or Dabheog, of Termon Alagrath, in Lough Derg, Donegal.
X 1 atron ot Tuam.

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CHARACTERISTIC VIRTUES.

Lachtain,* the champion, loved

Humility, perfect and pure.

Stand through perpetual time

Did he in defence of the men of M muter.

Mobeog,t the gifted, loved,
According to the Synod of the learned,
That often in bowing his head,
He plunged it under water.

Ji.rathe,{ the illustrious, loved—
A cleric he, who practised not niggardliness —
Three hundred genuflexions each night,
Three hundred genuflexions each eveniug.

Ulltan§ loved his children,
A dungeon to his lean side,
And to bathe in the cold water,
And the sharp wind he loved*

Ceallach Mac Conmaic|| loved
Mortifications which afflicted his body,
Blindness, deafness, lameness,
Were assigned to him — an unhappy case.

Ruadhan, king of Lothra, loved
A malediction which was merited.
No angeb displeasure attended
Any cause which he loved.

Fiachna loved true devotion,
To iustruct the people in multitudes,
He never spoke a despicable word,
Nor au^ht but what pleased his Lord.

} When mother* died of the mortality called JUmlllie Cl.onaill he collected
ir infant* and fed tbein with milk.
|| Of DUert Keil> in Comiaugnt.

CALENDAR OF IRISH SAINTS.

21tj cf AOf UAfAl bA }>-|on)lAo,
Ga6 tt|f a i)-56AbAd pAl&TtS
tfj bfoo 5A0 U|b|ij b'lonjftJvd.

CAfiAf S?)oIua CIuai)a jreAftcA
Un)Al6|b, uAfAl, |o6atj,
Rem oi&e, nem c6|r&i5e,
Rejft ca£a ir caoj A]cft>j6e.

21 r "?e Cutoid Co jijome,
Ro cleAco ctt£wbA6 jr seAijAr

|=eATin Al) lucb ttTT A CCAbTlAlfl) cAofc
Icce IJA IJAOli) |l6 CAttAf.

CHARACTERISTIC VIRTUES.

Benign us, the illustrious, loved—
The noble, perfect teacher —
That so as he could repeat a prayer,
He spent not without reciting Latin.

Molua of Cluain-fearta* loved

Humility, glorious and pure,

Submission to tutor, submission to parents.

Submission to all men, and under distempers.

I am Cuimin of Connaire,
Who hath practised mortification and chastity,
The party in which I trust are the best,
The prayers of the saints I have loved.

• Cluiifert Mulloe, Queen's County.

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The ten following hymns are taken from a supplement (not
approved) of the Irish Breviary, published in Paris, in the year
1769.

IN FESTO S. PATRICII.

LiBTARB coelum, plausibus
Tellus resultet aemulis,
Patricii memoriam
Solemni8 instaurat dies.

Mersis gravi caligine
Per te dies renascitur,
Quos vanus error luserat,
lllustrat alma Veritas.

Non vi nec armis militum,
Pandi nec ullis artibus,
Verbo sed irrisse crucis
Christo Majores subigis.

Jesum sonas, verses ruunt
Arces superb re Daeraonum ;
Circum tubis clangentibus
Sic versa quondam mcenia.

Fac, Christe, coelestis tuba
Somno graves nos excitet;
Accensa de te lumina
Pellant tenebras mentium.

Uni sit et trino Deo
Suprema laus, summum decus,
De nocte qui nos ad suae
Lumen vocavit gloriae. Ameu.

Lux de luce Deus, fous quoque

luminum,
Quo stat perpetuus coelitibus

dies,

Tristem sub misera nocte Hi*
berniam
Quanto lumine recreas !

Hue de sede Petri venit Patri-
cks;

Aras, fana, Deos funditus eruit ;
Divinae fidei nocte jacentibus
Portat lumina patribus.

Nutu cuncta tuo qui regis, 6
Pater !

Fili, cuueta tua qui reparas
cruce :

Fac qui corda fovea, Spiritus,
ut Patns
In natis amor ardeat. Amen.

IN FESTO S. COLUMBjE.

Non parta, fuso sanguine, Non iste flam mas, non crues,

Ornat Columbam purpura, Non sensit uncos pectines ;

Sed incruentum, quod suos Crudelis et durits sibi
II abet triumphos, praelium. Se morte lenta conficit.

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CALENDAR OF HUSH SAINTS.

Si lictor illi defuit,
Si vincla, fustes, ungulae;
Parata pro Christo niori
Hoc suppiet omne charitas.

Corpus subegit cast it a v
Et liberam mentem Fides ;
Amor supemis ignibus
Totam litavit hostiam.

Venis apertis omnibus
Qui vellet ultro erumpere,
Fraudatus optata via.
It fusus in fletum cruor.

Da, Christe, sic nos vivere,
Discamus ut semper mori:
Da, post ore vis viiae dies,
Vitae perennis gaudia.

Sterne tu verbi Pater,
jEterne Fili par Patri,
Et par utrique Spiritus,
Tibi, Deus, sit gloria. Amen.

Hyrnnus.

Inter, Columba, Coelites
Regnat, qui vixit saeculo
lgnotus, exosus sibi.
Qui pauper, et sciens pati.

Angusta pcenitentiae
Ingressus, et viam crucis,
Per dura Christum praelia,
Per damna non timet sequi.

Carnem terit j^juniis ;
Linguam domat silentio:
In pauperum, parens sibi,
Abscondit et spargit sinu.

Sapore verbi pascitur;
Totoque legem pectore
Scrutatus, orat pervigil :
Mens celsa versatur polo.

Hac surgit ad Coelura via
Et nos cadem da, Pater,
Da, Nate, da cum Spirit u,
Ad te venire semita. Amtn.

IN FESTO S. BRIGIDjE.

H*c nuptialis est dies,
Quae longa post suspiria,
Clarissimae dat Virgini,
Sponso frui jam plenius.

Coelestis aula panditur,
En sponsus! exi Brigida,
Coelo licet perennibus
Ejus potiri gaudiis.

Quae casta tibi gaudia,
Quos afflet ignes, indica,
Ab ore cujus purior
Torrcus voluptas effluil ?

O Virgin ales Nuptiae,
Per quas caro fit spiritus !
O dulce vinclum, jungitur
Quo mens Deo, menti Deus !

Sit laus Patri, kius Filio :
Sit par tibi laus, Spiritus,
Divina qui perennibus
Firinas sieillis faedero. An. en.

Hymnm.

0 Brigida, cui sacrum
Amoris expers improbi
Pectus, suis ardoribus
Sanctus perussit Spiritus.

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Non te voluptas dulcibus
Fallax venenis molliit,
Solas amantem persequi
Ccelestis agni nuptias.

Sic ille natus Virgine
Suo decore cceperat ;
Ut ejus ardens ignibus,
Mundana cuncta temneres.

Bcata cui nunc coelitura
Inter canentium cboros,
Coelo licet perennibus
Sponsi potiri gaudiis.

iEterne sponse Virginum,
Jesu, tibi sit gloria
Cum Patre, curaque Spiritu,
In sempiterna saecula. Amen.

IX INVENTIONE SS. PATRICII BRIG1D.E ET COLUMB.F,

AD LAUDES.

Sacr^. Patrici, Rrigida,
Columba, decus Insulae,
Ossa pie dura colimus,
Votis favete supplicum.

Non ilia, quanquara tristibus
lmum redacta in pu'.verem
Dudum sepulcris lateant,
Divina virtus deserit.

Sed sancta prajsenti fovet
Irapletque templa nuraine,

Sed et futurae spiritus
Post secia servat gloria?.

Hinc ille qui nostris latet
Cinis sub aris conditus,
iEgris mcdetur efficax,
Torquet fugatque Daemones.

Sit summa, Christe, laua tibi.
Venture Judex sieeuli,
Cura Patre et almo Spiritu,
In saeculorum saecula. Amen.

IN FESTO S. MALACHITE.

Pomtipkx cleri, populique norma,
Pervijanl pastor gresris in salutem,
Cui tegit sacra radiata flamm&
In tula frontem.

Qui choris junctus superQm beatls
Not* viam tecum cupia ire rectam,
De tuis nostram, Malachia, facta
Insti'ue vitam.

Tu juvas dextra mlseros potent!,
Aucrior per t*j pietas habetur,
Quos premit crimen, duce te, saluti
Restituuntur.

ITiuc tibi justum referens honorem,
Kt s^cri cultus Btudiuin perenne,
Te suum Clerus gaudeat Patronum,
AUjue dec or em.

Christe pastorum bonui Ipse pastor

Qui greges pascis proprio cruore,
Fac ut sterna? subeant opima
Fascua vita?.

Fac ut illius precibus juvemnr,
Christe; fac Patrem, pariterque
tecum

8piritum jugi celebremus hymno,
Omne per avuin. Amen.

Hymnus.

Quia novus ccelis agitur trtnmphni
Ccelitum plausum comitentur

H>mni :
Ecco 1 ux cleri, ecce Malachias
£2there splendet.

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CALENDAR OF IRISH SAINTS.

Quaro rudes ollm pnpulos doceba*,
Veritas nunc se tibi tota pandit:
Fauperi quicquid pia dextra fudit,
Reddit Olympus.

Te sacerdoteg vel adhuc mngistro,
Optimum Christ! referunt odorem ;

Clerici gaudent. duce te fideles
Esse ministri.

F.ic ut illius precibus juvemur,
Clmste,fae Patrem, pariterquc tecum
Spiritum jujci celebremus hymno
Omne per aevum. Amen.

IN FESTO S. LASRIANI.

Christe, pastorum caput atque prin-
ceps,

Pr.TStilis lestam venerata lucc?m.
Debit supple* t'na templa votis
Turba fiequentat.

Lazarus vano non tenet tremendam

Spiritu sedem, proprio nec auj-u :
Sed sacrum jussus Domino vucante,
Sumpsit honorem.

Strenuum bello pugilem supernl
Chrismatis pleno tuus unxit iotus
Spiritus cornu, posuitque sanctam
Pascere Gentem.

Fit gregia pastor, Pater atque forma :
Lajtus impendit sua, seque servus

Omnium, curis gravis, omnibusque
Omnia factus.

Pascha quo die debet celebrari,
Dicit Legatus, dirimitque rixas ;
Schisma quos omnes luserat fideles
Reddit ovili.

Pro reis orat, reftcit gementes,
Erigit lapsos, tenebraaque pellit ;
Fit potens verbo, docet alta, pravum
Conterit hostem,

Fac ut illius precibus juvemur,
Christe; fac Patrem, pariterque
tecum

Spiritum jugi celebremus hymno
Omne per asvum. Amen.

The following hymns arc selected from the Antiphonary of
Bangor, published by Muratori, from the original MS. in the Am-
brosian Library, Milan. They belong to the seventh century ; the
most ancient liturgical monuments of the Irish Church; hymns
sung, probably, by St. Columbanus, and by all the great saints
who studied in Bangor.

HYMNUS MEDL/E NOCTIS.

Mediae noctis tempus est,
Prophetica vox ad in one t,
Dicamus laudes Deo
Patri semper, ac Filio.,

Sancto quoque Spiritui ;
Perfectaeiiim Trinitas,
Uniusque {substantias
Laudanda nobis semper est.

Terrorem tempus hoc habet,
Quocum vastator Angelus
iKgypto mortem intulit,
Delevit primogenita.

Hsec justis hora salus est,
Et quos idem tunc Angelus
Ausus punire non erat
Signum formidans Sanguinis,

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iEeyptus flebat fortiter
Tantorum diro flumine ;
Solus gaudebat Israhel
Agni protectus Sanguine,

Nos vero Israhel sutnus
Lactam ur in te Doraine,
* Hostem spernentes et malum,
Christi defensi Sanguine.

Ipsum profecto tempus est
Quo voce Evangelica
Venturus Sponsus creditur,
Regni coelestis conditor.

Occurrunt Sanctae Virgines
Obviam tunc advent ui,
Gestantes claras lampades
Magno lastantes gaudio.

Stultae vero remanent,
Quae extiuctas habent lam-
pades,
Frustra pulsantes januaa
Clausae jam Regni Regis*.

AD SECUNDAM.

Te oramus Altissime
Exorto solis lumine
Christo oriens nomine,
Adesto nobis Domine
Qui regnas in smcula.

Quare vigilemus sobrii

Gestantes mentes splendidas
Adventni ut Jesu
Digne curramus obviam.

Noctisque medio tempore
Paul us quoque, et Sileas
Christum vincti in carcere
Conlaudantes soluti sunt.

Nobis mundus hie career est.
Te laudamus Christe Deus
Solve vincla peccatorum
In te sancte credentium.

Dignos nos fac Rex agie
Futuri Regni gloria!
jEternis ut mereamur
Te laudibus concinere.

Gloria Patri Ingenito,
Gloria Unigenito
Simul cum Sancto Spiritu
In 8empiterna saeoula.

AD SEXTAM.

Tuis parce supplicibus
Sexta hora orantibus
Qua fuisti pro omnibus
Christe in cruce positus.
Qui regnas.

AD TERTIAM.

Christi per horara tertiam
Deprecamur cleraentiam
Uti nobis perpetuam
Sua in tribuat gratiam,
Qui regnas.

AD NONAM.

Exaudi preces omnium
Nona hora orantium,
In qua Christe Comelium
Visitasti per Angelura.
Qui regnas.

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AD VESPERAS.

Vespertino sub tempore
Te invocamus Domine,
Nostris precibus annue,
Nostris peccatis iguosce.

IN HORA DIMIDII NOCTIS.

Noctis tempus exegimus
Christe in tuis laudibus,
Miserearis omnibus
Te ex corde precantibu9.
Qui regnas.

AD NOCTURNUM.

Jesu clementer visita
Nocte orantes media,
Qua divina potentia
Petri solvisti vincula.
Qui regnas.

AD MATUTINUM.

Deus subveni omnibus
Te ter sanctum laudantibu8
Unumque confitentibus
Sacris hymnorum cantibus
Qui regnas.

ITEM AD MATUTINUM.

Gallorum Christe cantibus
Te dejirecor sonantibus
Petri ob quondam fletibus
Nostris intende precibus.
Qui reguas.

ITEM ALIA AD MATUTINUM

Deus qui pulsis tenebris

Diei lucem tribui3,
Adveutum veri luminis

Tuis effunde fcmulis.

DE M ARTY RI BUS.

Triumpbalium meraores Martyrum tuorum, qui pro te toleravere
vexilla passionura, precamur, ut per sancta merita ipsorum uos-
trorum veniam mereamur peccatorum. Qui regnas, &c.

DE MARTYRIBUS.

Post ignes et laminas, cruces, atque bestias sancti cum magno
triumpho vehuntur in regno, et in refrigeno.

In invocatione sanctorum Martyrum miserere Deus suppHcutn
tuorum.

DE MARTYRIBUS.

Hi sunt Domine, qui felice cruore perfusi, dum blandientem
mundi hujus inlecebram gloriosa passione despiciunt, mortem
morte vicerunt, considerantesque tenebras hujus lucis certo ter-
mino, ac fine ruituras, sumpserunt de poena vitam, et de morte
victoriam. Rogamus te Christe, ut eorum precibus adjuvari mere-
amur, quorum consortes esse non possumus per te Christe, qui
cum Patre vivis, dominaris, et regnas.

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HYMNUS QUANDO COM M U N I C ARE N T SACERDOTES.

Sancti venite,*

Christi corpus sumite ;

Sanctum bibeutes,

Quo redempti sanguinem.

Salvati Christi,

Corpore et sanguine,
A quo refecti,
Laudes dicanius Deo.

Hoc sacramento,

Corporis et sanguinis,

Omnes exuti,

Ab inferni faucibus.

Dator Salutis,

Christus filius Dei,

Mundum salvavit,

Per crucem et sauguinem.

Pro universis,

lmmolatus Dominus,
Ipse Sacerdos,
Exiatit et hostia.

Lege preceptum,

Immolari hostias.

Qua adumbrantur,
Divina nmtiria.

Lucis indultor,

Et salvator omnium,
Praeclaram Sanctis,
Largitus est gratiam.

Accedant omncs,

Pura mente creduli,
Sumant eternam,
Saiutis custodiam.

Sanctorum enstos,

Rector quoque Doniiaus.
Vitre perennis,
Largitur credentibus.

Caelestem panem,

Dat esurientibus,
De fonte vivo,
Piaebet sitieutibus.

Alpha et omega.

Ipse Christus Dominus,
Venit, venturus
Judicare homines,

AD MATUTINAM IN DOMINICA.

Soiritus divinae
Lucis gloria?
Respice in me

Domine.

Deus Veritatis
Domine Deus Sabaoth,
Deus Israhel

Respice.

Lumen de lumine

Referemus Filium Patris
Sanctumque Spirit urn
Iu una substantia.

Respice.

Unigenitus, et primogenitus,
A te obtinemus
Redemptionem nostram.

Respice.

* "As St. Patrick and St. Sechnall (Sccrndinus) were going round the
cemetery (at Dunshaughlin) they heard a choir of angels chanting a hymn
at the offertory in the church— 4 Sancti venite,' &c. &c. ; and from that time
to the present, the hymn is chanted in Krinn when the body of Christ is
received."— jboofr of Hymns, p. 31 ; Irish Archaeological and Celtic Society.

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CALENDAR OF IRISH SAINTS.

Nat us es Spiritu Sancto
Ex Maria Virgine
In idipsum in adoptionem
Filiorum, qui tibi
Procreati ex fonte vivunt.

Respice.

. Haeredes, et quohaeredes
Christi tui, in quern
Et per quem cuncta creasti,
Quia in praedestinatione
A saeculis nobis est
Deus Jesus, qui nunc ccepit.

Respice.

Unigenito ex mortuis
Deo obtinens corpus,
Claritatem Dei, maneus
In saecula saeculorum
Rex aeternorum.

Respice.

Quia nunc cepit, qui semper
Fuit naturae tuae Films,
Divinae lucis glorias tuaV
Qui est forma, et plenitudo
Dignitatis tuae frequens.

Respice*

Persona Unigeniti,
Et primogeniti,
Qui est totus a toto
Diximus lux de lumine.

Respice.

Et Deum verura a Deo vero
Semper, semper confitemur,
Tribus personis
In una substantia

Respice in me Domine.

SANCTI COMGILLI ABBATIS NOSTRA.

Rbcordbmur justitiae
Nostri patroni fulgide
Comgilli Sancti nomine
Refulgentis in opere.
Adjuti Dei flamine
Sancto claroque lumine,
Trinitatis celsissimse
Cuncta tenentis regimine,
Quem Deus ad astherea
Conduxit habitacula,
Ab Angelis custodita,
Permansura in saecula.*

Bonam vitam, justitiam
Benignitatem floridaro,
Caritatem firmissimam,
Deo primo adhibitam

Juxta mandatum solidam
In regno praestantissiraatn,
Proximis saepe debitam,
Corde sereno placitam
Ethciebat cognitam
In futuro fructiferam,

Quem Deus,
* * * *

Humilis, Sanctus, benignus
Probus in Dei legibus
Humanus, justus, com modus,
Laudabilis in moribus
Hilaris vultu, sobrius,
Caritatis in floribus,
Decoratus ordinibus
Factus palam mortalibus

• After this proem and chorus follow twenty-three stanzas, the first com-
mencing with the letter A, the second with B, and so on. A few only can
be printed here. The following hymns are collected from several works.

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In Scripturis eruditus,
Inspiratus divinitus,
In Sacramentis providus,
Canonicis affatibus
Testamenti praefulgidus,
Fervens spirit u, placidus,
Deo carus, et piissimus.

Ab Angelis.

Magnum adprehendit bradium
Sterna vita condignura,
Adeptus Sanctum premium
Post laborem firmissimura,
Cujus perfectum meritum
Vocamus in auxiliura
Ut mereamnr omnium
Vitiorum excidium.

Quem Deus.

Notus Sanctorum coetibus
Abbatem in ordinibus
Monachorum militibus
Anachuretarum sensibus
Synodum Sanctis plebibus
Immo vir Apostolicus
Clarus cunctis in sortibus,
Adauctus in sublimibus .

Ab Angelis.

Per merits, et oratlones S. Comgllli Abbatis nostri omnes nos Domine in
tua pace custodi.

TO ST. FIACRE, PATRON OF MEAUX.

BOLLANDISTS, August 30.

Rexit sanctam Ecclesiara
Catholicam per regulam,
Retinens fidem solidam
Malam contra nequitiara.
Snara exercens animam
Sanctae legis per paginam,
Cujus exopto gratiam
Mibi adornet animam.

Ab Angelis.

Christum orabat Magistrum,
Summum ornans obsequium,
Christi gerens officiura
Actum per Apostolicum.
Hujus sequens vestigium
Ducens Deo exercitum
In sanctum habitaculum
Trinitatis lectissimum.

Ab Angelis.

Hymnum Deo cum cantico
Immolabat Altissimo,
Diei noctis circulo
Orans saepe cum triuropho
Nunc cantavit sub numero
Canticum novum Domino
Junctus cboro Angelico
Summo Sanctis in jubilo.

Quem Deus.

Nunc festival sonent laudes,
Nunc et sacre plaudaut sedes
Celebri Fiacrio.

Subjacentes linquit terras,
lu caelestes fertur oras
Sinn Dei pervio.

Clara quondam stirpe natus,
Res terrenas aspernatus,

Mundi migrat transfuga.

Sed et opes abnegavit,
Et honoreB concuicavit
Auri manu prodiga.

In secessum dum flagrabat,
Dum in umbras anhelabat,
Excipit hunc Gallia.

Nudis quoque ministrantem,
Et aegrotos sublevantem
Suscepit Lutetia.

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Ad Faronem veneranduru,
Mux se praebens imbuendum,
Tyro Christi properat.

Spem pastoris tunc Alumnus,
Ardens votis Deo plenus,
Gressu gygas superat.

Illibato fit pudore,
Indefesso fit amore,

Par beatis mentibus.

Fugitivus suos amat,
Sibi durus membra domat
Asperis laboribus.

O Vir magne, delitescis,
Inter silvas ac splendescis
Jubar admirabile.

Late* nomen illustratur,
Manus tua declarator,
Jus ineluctable.

Hue vicina plebs concurrit,
Peregrinus hue accurrit
Inhians spectaculo.

Hie colonos edocebas,
Hie curabas, hie paseebas.
Vili sub umbraeulo.

Numquam vacas, terram fodis
Coelo gaudes mille modis
Te super assurgere.

Divae Matri structo temp T o,
Gentem verbis et exemplo
Sursum mones tender e.

Coeli pal ma te regali
Tandem Ciristus immortali
Cingit diadem ate.

Sub sepulchro micas sign is,
Morbos fugat vis insignis,
Vires patent redditas.

0 Fiacri ! qui latendo,
Qui secessu te profundo,
Sic obscuras fugiendo,

Fac nos mundum spernere:

Junge Christo, quern araasti,
Vitae leges, quas servasti,
Fac tenere ; quam intrasti

Gloriam perquirere. Amen.

TO ST. KILIAN, APOSTLE OF FRANCONIA.
Daniel The$. Hymnot, p. 270.

FoN9 sapientiae, corona praesulum
])at te Kilianum patronum Franco-
rum

Cum viris clarissimis tuis consociis
Inclytos flores martyrum

Intelligentiae dono tu rutilas
Ignotse patriae ttdem tu praedicas
Romanos ut Cephas, Achaeos Andreas
8alvas Francos idolatras

Lumen scientiae, doctrines ccelicae
Confers Franconiae vit» Catholic®
Duel pro v incise, fidem ecclesi®
Fontemque donas gratia.

Dono consilii incertum prohibes
Geylanum odii caecat luxuries

Bapti.<-tam ut ssBva necat Herodias
Trucidat et haec martyres.

In fortitudinis dono martyrium,
Subis dulcedinis ob juge bravium *
Beatitudinis scandis imperium
Gaudens cum rege omnium.

Cogat te pletas divini flam In is
Fer nobis gratias paterni nuroinfs

131 ^w'slil'jwttabi tantsc forinidims
Christus tollat fons luminis.

Vitam hanc miseram timore Domini
Fac nobis pervlam tuo precamhie
Dat nobis patriam felicis bravii
Deus ajterni gaudii.

Amen.

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TO ST. RUMOLD, BISHOP OF DUBLIN.

IViTRON OP THE METROPOLITAN CHURCH AND CITY OP MECHLIN.

BOLLANDISTS, JulU, 3.

Dulce sacrato mea lingua pango
Ptoesuli carmen, cane laureati
Martyris celsa celebrem Kumoldi
Voce triumphum.

Te decent laudes, sacer o Rumolde
Te, cui term procul hinc relictis,
Contigit fuso superaa adire
Sanguine sedes.

Clara ne virtus modio lateret
Sceptra contemnis, patriamque et
Ipsum.

Insula sacrum decus et remotas
Tendis in oras.

F.rgo jam pauper Dominum petisti,
Tot per anfractus, peregrinus Urbem
Sacra ubi, oicris veneraris aris
Ussa reposta.

Inde digressus Domino monente,
Figis hie sedes, ubi tortuosus,
Inclytnm, flexu vario, Malinam
Dilia trunsit.

Prole mox chara steriles beast!
HospiteB : mersum rapidis sub undis,
* Jainque dcl'unctum revocasLibertum
Lucis in auras.

Quid loquar vitas quotios beatse
Educes leges? quoties docentem

Audit intentus populus, tuoque
Pendet ab ore.

Sed fames quid non sacra suadet anri?
Te duo nummum cupidi ( nefandum
Pro scelus) ferro perimunt ; cadaver,
Fluctibus abdunt.

Corpus ut noctu radiante luce
Proditum servat venerans Malina,
O ! quater sanctam,quater his beatam
Osaibus urbem.

8teme te totam, generosa quanta ea
Civitas, tanti tumulo Patroni,
Orna et exorna meliora gemmis
Marty ris ossa.

8ancte nunc urMs decus 6 Rumolde,
Civibus dona benedictiouem,
Urbis et totum regimen teneto
Jure sepulchri.

Heeresem, pestem, fera bella, morbus
Finibus nostris procul o repelle :
Adjuva Sanctis precibus cllentes
Sancte Rumolde.

Fac uti te qua licet cemulantes
Te triumphantem comitemnr illuc.
Nunc ubi astern a frueris si lute
Sancte Rumolde.

TO ST. COLMAN, PATRON OF AUSTRIA.

Bollan dists, October, 13.

Mark, fons, ostium atque terrarum
Deus

Tu omnium caput bonorum
A te bona fluunt, ad teque currunt.

Longe ab insulis pars bona maris
Ad fontem rediit, teque requirit
Jesu, viventium fontem aquarum.

Maris fons est Deus, pars Cholo-

Quern procul patriis sitit ab oris
Cervi more suum tendens ad ha^tum

Scotorum insula felix alumne
Nos prece sedula dignos fac aqua
Quam quisquis bibent, sitem post
nescit.

Mundos baptismate fraudes iniquae
Semper in ticiunt, semper demer/unt
Per stagnum cri minis in pcenam
mortis.

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CALENDAR OF IRISH SAINTS.

8ed tuts preeibus omnes oramug
De Bcevae eripi noise charybdi
Tangentes lacnrymis portum salutis.

La us tibi Trinitas, atqae potest an
Te laudent fiamina, coali, ac te>ra
A mari ad mare laus sit hac die.»

TO ST. GALL, FOUNDER AND PATRON OF ST. GALL

IN SWITZERLAND.

O dilkctk Domino Galle perennl
Hoininibus et coatibus angelorum :
Qui Jesu Cbristi obediens arduaj

suasioni
Proedia patris, gremium matris,
Conjugis curam, ludicra nati
Sprevisti, pauperem pauper Domi-

num sequens
Etcrucem gaudiisprsetulisti lubricis.
Sed Christus precio centuplicato
Usee compensavitut dies iste testatur
Dum tibi nos omnes tiiios dulci sub-

dit affectu,

Sueviamque »uavem patriam tibi

Galle donavit.
Nee nonet judicem in coelisapostolo-

rum choro junctum te fecit sedere.
Te nunc suppliciter precamur ut

nobis Jesum Cbristum Galle pos~

tules favere,
Et locum corporis, ejus pace, repleas,
Ac tuos supplices crebra prece sub-

leves

Ut tibi debitam honorificentiam
Lsetabundi semper moneamur solvere
O Galle Deo dilecte.f

HYMN FROM THE
PATRON

Cataldus pudicitiae
Flos et candoris lilium
Sanctitatis et gratiae
Vas et honor fidelium.

Splendens doctrinae radiis
Virginia doraum fabricat
Radiansque prodigiis
A morte functos revocat.

Factus is vitas speculum
In praesulem eligitur

OFFICE OF ST. CATALDUS,
OF TARENTUM.

Pandit scriptural pabulum
Christi fides erigitur

Gaude Tarenti civitas
Tali ditata corpore
Cujus mira suavitas
Infirmos firmat robore

Deo Patri sit gloria
Ej usque soli Filio
Cum spiritu Paraclito
In sempiterna saecula.

TO ST. FURSA, PATRON OF PERONNE IN FRANCE.

LuBta plaude Hibernia
Latiniaci mania
Chorocoruscantjubilo
Pulso imcroris nubilo

Clarum struit cccnobium
Fratrum ponit consortium
Aqua scaturit baculo
Scd lixo terrae iu arido

• In tota Germania, multa templa, plures arse, S. Colmanno in script* po-
tentiflFimum ad Deum patrocinlum attestantur. Boll, ibid- p. 354.

♦ Notk* rus Balbulus. Liber Sequentiarum. Pez. Thes. Anecdot, torn. L
Tars. I., p. 34.

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Matrona vobis improba
Sancti supra ecclesiam
Gemit argenti millia
Tarn multa inquit perdita.

Fursaee, lampas sideris
Tui memor sis generis

HYMNS.

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In nos cum mors jam pendulum
Suum fuderit jaculum.

Clausa natus de Virgine
Jesu spei fons unice
Cum Patre et Sancto Spiritu
Tuis salvet in transitu. Amen.

TO ST.

HONOURED AT FOSSA,

Ignis columna claruit
Solum tangens et sidera
Quae reperiri docuit
Nocte sanctorum itinera.

Fontis locus, martyrii
Demonstrat privilegium
Fossas sapcio corpori
Fossa? parat obsequium

BELGIUM (NIVBLLB).

Sursuni leventur animi
Ad praesulis presidium
Quo magni detur Domini
Perennis vitae bravium ;

Praesta pater ingenite
Jesu, cum sacro flamine
Ut Foillani precibus
Jungamur in caelestibus. Amen.

PROSE TO ST. DYMPNA.

Laudes Dymphnae plebs nostra decantat
Alleluia.

Coelos scandit Dymphna, qua? cum Deo vivit,

Martyr alma.
Haec est virgo sapiens quam dilexit

Sol de stella
Rsgis proles Hiberniae Dympbna fulsit

Facie semper clara.
Matri fide stabilis, jam defunctae similis

Pari forma.
Spretis patris nuptiis, minis nec blanditiis

Fit corrupta.
Vires infernalium crebro sedat ignium

Valle nostra.
Insistentis open, manum sanat miseri

Carne sumpta.
Ferri vincula reserat, et captivos liberat.

Ut mens nostra deserat esse caeca,
Obsessos daemonibus, sensus reddit usibus,
Praepotens virtutibus : haec praedicta.

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CALENDAR OF IRISH SAINTS.

Nnnc regis filia, mortis supplicia
Ne patiatur gens misera

Prece propitia, nobis concilia
Quem genuit puerpera.

Alleluia.

TO ST. COLUMBA.

Columba penna nivea Pro dulci cantu querulis

Collo resplendens roseo Intendebat gemitibus

Loca petit siderea Crebris adjuugens sedulis

De claustro mundi lutco. Fletus orationibus.

Hie nidum sibi posuit
In petra pcenitentiac
Devotos Chriato genuit
Pullos per verbuiu gratiae.

Sit Deo soli gloria
Qui nos post cursus stadia
Columbae per suffragia
Ducat ad coeli gaudia. Amen.

FROM THE OFFICE OF ST. FINNIAN OF CLONARD.

Ad est dies lsetitiae Gratuletur Hibernia

Cleri gaudent cum jubilo Freta doctore coelitus

Refulsit sol ju&titife Quo cleri contubernia

Qui prius erat sub nubilo. Reformantur divinitus.

From the same.

Mel quod in territoriis

Rosa crevit de liliis
Vernanti rubens folio
Spcciosus prae filiis
Superno sedet solio.

Sed hie flos in Hibernia
Odorem farnae sparserat
Ut ad se contubernia
Clericorum allexerat.

Hujus ross3 de foliis
Apes sacratae suzerant

Suis postea vexerant.

0 quam pracclarum flosculum
Clara parit Talicia
Ad cujus oris osculum
Morti cedunt et vitia.

Christo fove sub casulis
Vexatos dolore vario
Tuis nos junge rosulis
In ccelesti rosario. Amen.

TO ST. COLUMBANUS.
Nostris solemm8 saeculis Qui post altus Hibernia

Refulget dies inclyta
Qua sacer ccelos columba
Ascendit ferens trophaea.

Sed priusquam eum mater
In auras lucis ederet
E sinu solem prospicit
Terris lumen dirTundere.

Saero edoctus dogmate
Gallica arva adiens
Plebi salutem tribuit.

Gloria tibi Trinitas
yK(|ualis vera Deitas
Et ante omnia saecula
Et nunc ct in perpetuum.

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FROM A POEM BY ST. COLUMBANUS.

Mundus iste transit et quotidie decrescit ;
Nemo vivens manebit, nullus vivus remansit.
Omuis caro ut foenura, tiagrans licet floriua
Sicque quasi flos faeni, oinnis ejus gloria.
Orto sole arescit, fsenum et flos deperit,
Sic est ononis juventus, virtus cum defecerit.
Vultus Christi radius prae cunctis amabilis
Magis est diligendus, quam flos carnis fragilis.
De cerrenis eleva tui cordis oculos ;
Ama araantissimos Angelorum populos.
Beata familia qua? in altis habitat
Ubi senex non gemat neque infans vagiat.

ST COLUMBANUS TO HIS DISCIPLE HUNIALDUS.

C asibus innumeris decurrunt tempora vita? ;

O mnia praetereunt, menses volvuntur et anni.

L abitur in senium momentis omnibus aetas

U t tibi perpetuam liceat comprendere vitam.

M olles illecebras vita?, nunc sperpe caducas

B landa luxuria virtus superatur honesta.

A rdet avaritia caecaque cupidine pectus

N escit habere modum, vanis mens dedita curis.

V ilius argentum est auro, virtutibus aurum

S umma quies nil velle super quam postulat usus.

H os ego versiculos misi tibi saepe legendos

U t mea dicta tuis admittas auribus oro.

N e te decipiat vana et peritura voluptas

A spice quam brevis est procerum regumque potestas.

L ubrica mortalis cito transit gloria vita?

D a veniara diciis, fuimus fortasse loq-iaces.

O mne quod est nimium, semper vitare memento.

TO ST. BRIDGET.

Alta audite ta erga toto mundo micantia
Bt igita? lectissimee in Christo coruscantia.
Cffili conscendit culmina caritatis dementia
Desponsata sanctissima Domino ab infantia.
Electa apta alumna Patricii cum prudentia
Factis erat clarissima Spiritus Sancti cum gratia.
Gestis fulsit gratissima area et urna aurea
H*c quse habebat inbita sancta sauctorum omni»,

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J httstis unxit vestimina illius myrra et cassia.

Kastaque thuris pectora timiatis incendia.

Lucerna lucis Jucida resplendens in ecclesia

Mira civitaa consita supra montia cacumiua.

Nuta et apostolica signa atque prodigia

Optima cgit opera secundum evangelia.

Parte ? pascebat agmina pauperum de inopia

Quantum sanabat morbida corpora quiescentia.

Regina austri addita Salomonis scientia

Sancta adepta opima Patricii patrocinia,

Tuebatur tutissima Rebecca verecundia,

Virginitate florida custodiebat praecordia.

Christum in Dei dextera collaudat cum victoria

Ymuizans voce consona ccelorum inter millia.

Zona prsecinxit latera sancta cum stola aurea

Et nunc manet per sterna saecula in aula regia

Quae consedit in cathedra cum matre Maria *

hem, Christ us in nostra insula quae vocatur beatisbinu f

ST. COLUMBA'S HYMN TO ST. BRIDGET,
Translated from th* Irish by Colgan, " Trias Thaura," p. 606.

Brigida virgo perennis bonitatis Purissima virgo nobis praechara

Fax aurea, praefulgida Honore digna ineffabili

Nos adducat ad perenne regnum Nos defendamur omni tempore

Sol fortis et irradians. Per meam sanctam de Lagenia.

Nos defendat Brigida Suppar columna regni

A catervis dsemonum Post Patricium primarium

Prosternat ante nos Quag decor decorum

Prcelia omnium adversitatum. Quae regina regia.

Extinguat in nobis Erit post senium

Carnis pravos affectus Corpus nostrum in cilicio

Haec arbor florifera Ejus gratia respergamur

Usee Christi mater. Nos protegat Brigida.

Ibid.

Brigida nomen habet, gemino et diademate fulget
Quam colimus fratres, Brigida nomen habet.

Virgo fuit Domini, mundo et crucifixa manebat,
Intus et exterius virgo fuit Domini.

* End of the hymn. The last line is probably the commencement of the
other hymn in honor of St. Bridget, viz. ** Chriatus in nostra insula."

♦ Mone'H "Hynini Medii JEvi," p. 241, iii. from a MS. of the eighth cen-
tury ; on the model of the famous bymn of St. Secundums in honor of St.
Patrick.

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HYMN*.

Despiciebat ovans instantis gaudia vitae

Et falsos fast us despiciebat ovans.
Horruit et fragiles fallentis mundi bonores

Divitias, pom pas, horruit et fragiles.
Gaudia perpetuae spectans et proemia vitae

Suscepit certae gaudia perpetuae.
E superis resonat intus cum sedibus Echo

Tubarum sublirais e superis resonat.
Mitte beata preces pro nobis Vin?o benigna.

Ad Dominum semper mitte beata preces.

HYMN TO ST. PATRICK.

Exultent filii matris ecclesiae
Hymnuraque socii pangamus
hodie

Adest Patricii festiva glorias
Dies et lux laetitiae.

Hunc dum retinuit mundus in
vinculis

Carnis, effloruit multis rairaculis
Fuit hie populis salus Hibernicis
Sacris doctrinae pabulis.

Per orbis spatia, fidem dissemi-
nat

Et ab Hibernia virus exterminat:
Claudis vestigia dat : et illuiui-
nat

Caccos : ei plebs concinat.

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Patri ingenito honor, devotio
Laus unigenito sit Dei filio
Sancto Paraclito aequalis actio
In sempiterna saccula. Amen.

Ant. ad Magnificat. — Ave praesul egregie, pastor gregis Hiber-
nian S. Patrici praesul pie, nostras custos familiae ; funde preces
quotidie, pro nobis Regi gloriae.

(Trias

Laeta lux est hodierna

Qua conscendit ad superna

Vir Dei Patricius.

Qui perlatus iu hunc lucera

Puer bonus Christi crucem

Veneratur ocius

Humo pressit signura crucis

Fons erupit; donum lucis

Caeco nato praebuit

Sub Germani disciplina
Documeutis et doctrina

Thaum, p. 192.)

Studet Evangelicis.
Hie a Papa Ccelestino
Doctor est nutu Divino
Transmissus Hibernicis.

Transit pater ab hac luce
Signis plenus Christo duce
Lucis ad palatinm
Ubi nobis prece sua
Confer, bone Jesu, tua
Pietate gaudium. — Amen.

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